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…
PPARG & Theatre and Performance Research Groups – research seminar 25 October 2017
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…
Sloganon’anon
Politics is in a state of flux. Elites are talking to the people but in a culture that discourages political discussion they resort to a series of slogans. Old terms are being reconfigured and new terms are constantly generated across social media and in popular discourse. The global and local terrain of politics is awash…
Syncopolitics
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…
R.D. Laing and the Problem of Experience: Therapy, Community and Education
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…
Anarchist Research Group’s Upcoming Events
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…
For & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet Invitation to participate in a public symposium
For & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet Invitation to participate in a public symposium Friday May 26, 2017 Loughborough University Keynote: Mark McGowan, aka Artist Taxi Driver and Chunkymark We invite you to respond to the idea, concept, format, aesthetic, function, relevance, purpose or history of the political pamphlet. Presentations will take two…
