February 2025
Welcome to the February2025 edition of CAMC Curates, the newsletter for the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities. CAMC Curates provides monthly updates from our postgraduate and staff researchers about recent news, events and publications.
RECENT NEWS
Anthony Luvera presented
at the third International Arts and
Homelessness Summit in London
The third International Arts and Homelessness Summit took place at the Old Diorama Arts Centre in London between the 22nd and 24th of January 2025, featuring workshops, performances, and panel discussions involving academics, activists, cultural organisers, writers, and artists from around the world - over 50% of whom are or have been homeless. Anthony took part in a panel discussion entitled, 'Photographic Representation in Arts and Homelessness' alongside Rey Trombetta (Streetwise Opera, UK), Ollie Bream (People of the Streets, UK), Owen Clayton (University of Lincoln, UK) Bengy Speer, (Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Mark Horvath, (Invisible People, USA), and Samra Said (Arts & Homelessness International). Their panel explored the historical context of photographic representation in the intersection between the arts and homelessness, examining best practices, ethical considerations, and personal experiences of being represented. The panel followed a hands-on workshop co-facilitated by Anthony, Owen Clayton (University of Lincoln), and Rey Trombetta (Streetwise Opera). The purpose of the workshop was to begin the co-creation of guidelines for creating visual representations of homelessness. The workshop has inspired further work being undertaken to develop and disseminate the guidelines to marketing and communications departments in the homelessness charity sector, media outlets, policymakers, and other organisations and individuals involved in commissioning or creating imagery of the experience of homelessness. Both events were well-attended by people who work in the homelessness support sector, academia, policy, the arts and cultural sectors, as well as people who are or have experienced homelessness.
Carolina Rito was guest speaker
at Transart PhD Seminar Series
Transart PhD seminar series hosted a seminar by Carolina Rito exploring the role of display in cross-disciplinary artistic research. This event examined how practice research can be displayed rather than merely described, adding to the role of text in doctoral research and the placement of the practice component within submissions. The workshop invited participants from visual arts, design, curating, filmmaking, and more to discuss diverse approaches to exposition and writing.
José Dias is guest speaker
at CAS SEE Seminar Series
On Thursday, March 6th, 2025 at 12:00 PM (CET), RECAS are hosting the CAS SEE Seminar with José Dias on “Dialogic ethnography and participatory research: challenging established narratives in the music industry” in conversation with the RECAS Fellow Jasna Jovićević. The Regional Network of Centres for Advanced Studies in Southeast Europe (RECAS) induces societal change by promoting the visibility, quality, and relevance of Western Balkans and Southeast European (SEE) research while enabling early career researchers to conduct socially engaging and policy-relevant research in the region. José's presentation will explore how dialogic ethnography and participatory research can assist in investigating established narratives, both at the official and grassroots levels. It will draw on a few examples of projects that I have led, including an ethnography on European jazz networks, the representation of women in the music industry of Europe and Brazil, and the collective cultural memory of the people of Coventry as depicted in film archives. Through these examples, I aim to demonstrate the potential of dialogic ethnography in gaining a deeper understanding of the coexisting and often contradictory narratives about and from communities, the creative cultures, and policymakers. The presentation will try to show how participatory research can help bridge the traditional divide between the researcher and the participant, who is often viewed as a passive subject. I argue that challenging established narratives is a vital methodological approach, as it can assist in juxtaposing qualitative and quantitative research, allow a more in-depth understanding of communities and industries, and in effectively questioning the field of study.
PGR NEWS
Digital Screens - Social Issues,
RD Proof of Concept Funding Award
Coventry University PhD student, Una Murphy, co-founder of a community media outlet in Belfast, VIEWdigital, has been awarded a grant from Future Screens Northern Ireland to develop online video and audio storytelling content with a focus on local social issues, co-created with people with lived experience of disadvantage and marginalisation.
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