Appropriating Space Programme

Appropriating Space Programme
Goldsmiths, University of London

Friday, 22 February 2008

Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre

9:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open.

10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome
Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair

10:15-10:30 Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek
PhD in Communication Arts
University of Western Sydney
You Aren’t Here: Graffiti, the ‘Non Place’ and the Creative Transformation of Urban Space

10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Anna

10:45-11:00 Anna Fewster
Collaborative DPhil
University of Sussex and The Charleston Trust
Black Shapes on White Spaces: Reading the Negative Space of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction

11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

11:15-11:30 Mehita Iqani
PhD in Media and Communications
London School of Economics
Point of Sale: The Magazine Newsstand as Socio-semiotic Space

11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou

11:45-12:00 Patrik Meier
PhD Anthropology
SOAS, University of London
Weaving ‘Modern’ Practices into ‘Traditional’ Space: Young Men in the Tourist Business Shaping Aleppo’s Old City Suq

12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

12:15-1:15 Lunch

Location: Room Change to the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 137A

1:30-1:45 Rachel Shapiro
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Giant Marionettes, Police Blockades and the Politics of Street Festival in Paris’ Goutte d’Or Neighbourhood

1:45-1:55 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A

2:00-2:15 Nick Ferguson
PhD Fine Art
Goldsmiths, University of London
My Space? Claiming the 2012 Olympic Park

2:15-2:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

2:25-2:40 Daniel Bird
Bakhtin Centre
Sheffield University
Hades Under Krakow: Reclaiming the Salt Mines of Wieliczka as a Greek Performance Space

2:40-2:50 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou

3:00-3:45 Panel Session

3:45-4:00 Break for coffee, tea and snacks

4:00-4:15 Shanu Sadhwani
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Crossing Borders: Hybrid Performances and the British Asian Stage

4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A

4:30-4:45 Jamie Furniss
DPhil, Department of International Development
Oxford University
The Politics of Space: Putting Egypt’s Garbage and Garbage Collectors in their Place

4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro

5:00-5:15 Holly Prescott
MA in Literature and Cultural Studies
Lancaster University
‘Authorised’ Personnel Only: Abandonment, Space and Power in Urban Exploration Photography

5:15-5:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

5:30-5:45 Anna Porubcansky
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Transforming the Social Performing Group: Song of the Goat Theatre and its Expeditions into Space

5:45-5:55 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou

6:00 Closing remarks
Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair

6:15 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union



Saturday, 23 February 2008

Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre

10:30-11:00 Late registration and check-in open.

11:00-11:10 Opening remarks
Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair

11:15-11:30 Lucia Vodanovic
PhD Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
Rethinking Appropriation: Reference and Difference

11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel

11:45-12:00 Siobhan Peeling
PhD School of History
University of Nottingham
Soviet Facades and Backyards: Appropriations of Leningrad’s Public Spaces after the Second World War

12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

12:15-12:30 Arabella Stanger
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
William Forsythe and the Choreography of Space: Redefining the Classical Stage

12:30-12:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou

12:40-1:40 Lunch Break

1:45-2:00 Jennifer Laws
PhD Department of Geography
Durham University
Dissident Spaces: the Spatialities of Listening, Survivorship, and Anti-/Psychiatry

2:00-2:10 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky

2:15-2:30 Richard J Piatt, O.S.A
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
The Space In-Between: Augusto Boal’s notion of Metaxis in light of the ‘Kingdom of God’

2:30-2:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro

2:45-3:00 Chris Little
MPhil Interdisciplinary Studies
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Effects of Surveillance of Public Space on a Post-Millennium Youth Subculture

3:00-3:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

3:15-3:30 Break for coffee, tea and snacks

3:30-3:45 Maria Kogkou
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
How the Local took Centre-stage: The Case of the Bush Theatre

3:45-3:55 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

4:00-4:15 Laura Mansfield
MA Cultural and Critical Theory
Birkbeck College, London
Fish and Chips in Formica Fitted Cafes, Cups of Tea and Ice Creams, and the English Seaside

4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A

4:30-4:45 Stephen Parkin
PhD Sociology
Plymouth University
Purity, Danger and the Displacement of Injecting Drug Users: The Appropriation and Re-Appropriation of Space in an Urban Environment

4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky

4:55-5:00 Short break for roundtable setup

5:00-6:00 Roundtable discussion

6:00-6:10 Closing Remarks
Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair


6:30-11:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema