Following collaborative activities last year, join us in a series of events in March on campus and various venues to come (including Venice Biennale from May 2019) starting with the opening of the Re-Re-imagining Citizenship exhibition including Should I Stay or Should I Go? a seriously playful opportunity to test your citizenship knowledge…plus much much more…..Wednesday 13thMarch Martin…
Join us for Citizen Lunch (critical and non-citizens welcome) every Tuesday 1pm-2pm through October in Martin Hall Exhibition Space Loughborough University – bring your own lunch! Last chance! Final Citizen Lunch (and non-citizens of course!) Tuesdays 1pm in gallery continue! Come together and talk! Final lunch – bring a European dish/food/nibbles on Tuesday 30th October at 1pm…
Politicized Practice/Anarchist/Theatre and Performance Research Group What does Citizenship mean in the 21st century? Protest, papers, politics Dr Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy University of Roehampton, London 1pm Wednesday 25 April Martin Hall MHL117a/b This talk will example the technical and activist definitions of citizenship in relation to the possibility of protest, belonging…
Engineering the imagination, creating spaces of appearance: political performativity and Welfare State International Dr. Gillian Whiteley (School of Arts, English & Drama) 12 noon Wednesday 25 October Loughborough University Edward Barnsley 63.1.07 Emerging from the radical politics of 1968, Welfare State International, a nomadic collective of individual artists, musicians, performers and engineers, pioneered the idea of temporary…
Dr. Fred Dalmasso (School of the Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University) 2pm WEDNESDAY 15th FEBRUARY in Martin Hall Boardroom MHL 1.09 Dr Fred Dalmasso is Lecturer in Drama in the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University (UK). He has published on practice-based theatre-translation and on the interaction between performance, philosophy and…
Dr. Vlad Morariu and Jaakko Karhunen 11am Wednesday 25 January in Radar Artspace A hero of the British counter-culture and protagonist of an unorthodox approach to psychiatry and of a practice that intersected art and politics, R.D. Laing’s legacy deserves revaluation. It has the potential to provide tools for working through the contemporary connections between…
Name/Event Affiliation Title Date Room Antonis Vradis Loughborough University TBA Wednesday 25th January, 5PM K.1.05 Professor Erika Cudworth The University of East London Beyond the imperial human: towards a creaturely politics Wednesday 8th February, 5PM K.1.05 Professor Peter Ackers De Montfort University Ackers Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain Wednesday 22nd February, 5PM K.1.05 Professor Carl Levy Goldsmiths, University…
