Upcoming PPRG meeting 1-2pm Wed 26 January 2022 Microsoft Teams meeting  Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting Dear PPRGers, associates and potential new members Our speaker on 26th January will be Doctoral Researcher Rachel Gadsden Hayton:Sensation and Activism – perceptions from politicised artistic practice, UK, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong,…

Upcoming PPRG meeting Wed 16 June 1pm Microsoft Teams meeting – join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting For our next meeting, Richard suggested a short extract (2 pages) from Jacques Rancière’s Dis-Agreement to read in advance of the meeting (here is the link: Extract_Disagreement-Politics-and-Philosophy.pdf, also attached). Discussing this text…

Upcoming PPRG meeting 1-2pm Wed 28th April 2021

Microsoft Teams meeting (Join on your computer or mobile app) Click here to join the meeting Dear PPRGers, associates and potential new members,At our last meeting, we agreed that we would use the next PPRG seminar as a reading group session. Antoinette suggested the following article to read in advance of the meeting (please see pdf…

Seminar Series 2021

This seminar series is a platform for our members to (formally or informally) present their work and their practice then frames a wider discussion about re-imagining citizenship (www.re-imagining.org):  Wednesday 24th March at 1pm-2pm At our last meeting, we agreed that we would use the next PPRG seminar as a reading group session. We suggest the following Hito…

Communal Citizen lunches online

With a nod to our Re-imagining Citizenship project, we planned to re-instigate communal Citizen lunches on campus before the world changed shape…so we are having Communal Citizen lunches online instead. Bring food/drink for eating and thinking. Next one  Friday 8th May 12.30 – Chiara Dellerba ponders dealing with boredom under ‘lockdown’, she suggests The Upside…

White Poppies – No More War!

No More…Wednesday 13 November Loughborough University On Wednesday 13 November, we made a white-poppy ‘No More’ wreath, walked in procession across to the Hazlerigg Fountain and respectfully performed a series of collective actions in various locations on campus. Our T-shirts were designed and printed by Zoe Petersen (with thanks to Michael Collins and the Lambeth…

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…