Aesthetics and Politics. Art as Resistance?
Friday, November 4, 2022
Lecture Theatre 1, Bush House, King’s College London, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30 - 11.15 Panel 1: Irruption in Meaning. Unexpected Elements of Aesthetic Contestation.
11.15 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.15 Panel 2: Aesthetics and the Production of Social Dominance.
13.15 - 13.50 Lunch
13.50 - 15.15 Panel 3: Enacting the Challenges of Political Art.
15.15 - 15.25 Break
15.25 - 16.50 Panel 4: Venturing into (Im)Possible Worlds. Literary Re-imagining of Political Spaces.
16.50 - 17.00 Break
17.00 -18.00 Keynote: Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)
18.00-18.45 Drinks Reception
Lecture Theatre 1, Bush House, King’s College London, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30 - 11.15 Panel 1: Irruption in Meaning. Unexpected Elements of Aesthetic Contestation.
- Lana Crowe (UCL): Good Surprises: Jazz and Reparative Reading as Resistance
- Logan Simpson (QMUL): Implementation of Visual Cultural Elements in Indigenous Script Creation
- Lucie Chateau (Tilburg University): Degradation as Resistance: Alienation in the Purposefully Poor Image
- Camille Crichlow (UCL): Biometric Facial Recognition and the ‘Racial Regime of Aesthetics’: Constructing a Universal Human Subject
11.15 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.15 Panel 2: Aesthetics and the Production of Social Dominance.
- Pieta Päällysaho (University of Jyväskylä): Plato and Three Problems of Aesthetics
- Wenhan Zhang (Northwestern): Sovereign Fiction, Fictitious Sovereignty: George Buchanan and the Politics of Fiction
- Vladimir Gildin Zuckerman (University of Copenhagen): How Does a 'political performance' get its form? Reflections on Xenophon's Cavalry and the Dithyrambic Chorus
- Silvia Binenti (UCL): Designing Politics: the T-Shirts of Italian Politicians
13.15 - 13.50 Lunch
13.50 - 15.15 Panel 3: Enacting the Challenges of Political Art.
- Gabriel Bristow (UCL): Sun Ra’s Anti-War Lullaby
- Liam Johnston-Mccondach (Oxford University): Doing Politics Differently: Bertolt Brecht in France
- Mathieu Farizier (Oxford University): Nathalie Quintane’s Strange Formula for Political Effectiveness: Between Voluntarism and Non-Intentionality
15.15 - 15.25 Break
15.25 - 16.50 Panel 4: Venturing into (Im)Possible Worlds. Literary Re-imagining of Political Spaces.
- Patrick Chester (QMUL): Shelley’s Rome, Pompeii and England in 1819: Rhizomatic models of negativity in Shelley’s depiction of Rome and Pompeii.
- Sophie Thompson (University of Kent): Childhood, Utopian Dreaming and the Domestic Aesthetic of Edith Nesbit
- Alix Stephan (UCD): A Poetic Resistance: Rimbaud à Contre-Temps
16.50 - 17.00 Break
17.00 -18.00 Keynote: Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)
18.00-18.45 Drinks Reception