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CAMC Curates is the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities newsletter with suggestions and news from our expert and engaged researchers.
Research News
Curator and theorist Doreen Mende (Associate Professor, HEAD, Geneva) talks about the need to actualise the currency of critique in contemporary practices. In contemporary art and curating, critique suggests a transgenerational dialogue woven with feminist theory, institutional critique, critical theory, among others. However, the current state of affairs might require a more embedded and affective approach. Mende calls for a move towards being affected and affecting so that critique does not get exhausted in the critical assessment of the power structures in which it sits. For Mende, critical practices have to open up the possibilities for experimentation, fiction, theory and speculation, inhabiting absences and mobilising new political arenas. In this talk, Mende also talks about the ways in which our practices were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a pharmakon (simultaneously, cure and poison), tele-technology has turned the inevitability of physical distancing into an ongoing rehearsal of social proximity at the distance. Watch the talk here.
1st BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG event 2020: Core Corpus Skills for Academic Purposes
The 1st BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG event, with 108 participants, was organised by Benet Vincent, Simon Smith, Sian Alsop and Hilary Nesi, under the auspices of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group. The aim of the day was to discuss the role corpora can play in EAP teaching and learning, and to address a gap in the BALEAP TEAP Competency Framework and Can Do Statements, which do not currently refer explicitly to data-driven learning and corpus approaches. The intervention was timely as the TEAP Competency Framework is currently under review, informed by practitioner expertise. For more information please contact Benet Vincent ab6667@coventry.ac.uk.
Publications
Imogen Peck's new chapter in Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice
Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice (Routledge) includes CAMC researcher Imogen Pecz’s chapter 'Reconciliation and Oblivion in the English Republics', an exploration of the approaches to, and the limits on, attempts to achieve 'reconciliation' in post-civil war England. The collection as a whole takes a historical perspective, tracing the concept of 'reconciliation' from ancient Greece to the modern day. Pecz’s contribution points to a consistency in the challenges that confront post-war states that runs through the historical record, while also emphasising the extent to which particular outcomes remain historically contingent. See more here.
Events
Sheena Gardner and Benet Vincent at Work in Progress
Working in Progress
Wednesday 17 Feb 2pm
Communicating Covid: ‘This advice is not a request. It is an instruction.’
Sheena and Benet will present an initial study in the ‘Communicating Covid’ project. The researchers have been looking at the ways that Government spokespeople gave instructions to the public during Covid briefings held in the first lockdown. This work focuses on whether the widespread confusion reported about understanding of lockdown rules might be linked to the way these rules were expressed. We welcome questions and comments on our initial findings.
Call for Papers
CFP: House, Home and the Domestic CAMC International Symposium
Our ideas of and relationships with the home continue to evolve, particularly now in the era of COVID 19. Focusing on the home as an enclosed space with its surrounding parameters, this international symposium aims to encourage dialogues between different areas of expertise and highlight how these new meanings have been experienced within different countries. We welcome papers, posters and art works from a range of disciplines including, but not limited to, art history, art, history, literature, architecture, geography and psychology, that explore the physical and mental spaces of house and home.
The deadline is the 30th April 2021. Find more here.
Image credit: Graham Chorlton, Headlights, acrylic and oil on canvas, 122cm x 200cm, 2019.
Image credit: Yellow House, by John Devane
