Materials In Practice Symposium.

 

Show and Tell

A symposium organised by the Materials in Practice study group

Friday 6th May 2016

Room S2, Alison Richard Building

 

Refreshments are free of charge to all attending, thanks to funding from the Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.

 

9:30-10:30 Panel Session 1 (chair: Abi L. Glen)

• Brendan Gillott (Cambridge), ‘Olson’s “Objectism” vs. Object-Oriented Ontology’

• Mischa Twitchin (QMUL), ‘Pedagogic Materials: Tylor and Godard’

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00-12:30 ‘Show and Tell’ session (led by Rachel Stroud, Faculty of Music)

Participants are invited to present or discuss some of the materials that they are tracing or producing in their current work.

 

12:30-13:30 Lunch (Nanna Mexico; vegetarian options available)

 

13:30-15:00 Panel Session 2 (chair: Dr Joanna Page)

• Srishti Krishnamoorthy (Cambridge), ‘Disruptive Botanical Surfaces in Susan Howe’s Poetry since 1990’

• Lucy Bollington (Cambridge), 'Posthuman Necropolitics in Mario Bellatin's Salón de belleza'

• Nathaniel Zetter (Cambridge), ‘The Hunter Class: The Special Forces and Practices of Cynegetic War’

 

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

 

15:30-16:30 Keynote: Dr John David Rhodes, ‘The Spectacle of Property’

 

We will be hosting a gin-tasting in the ARB after the symposium.