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CAMC Curates is the newsletter for the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities with updates, news and events from our expert and engaged researchers.
News
‘One week, 36 sessions and over 25 high-profile speakers…
Coventry University announces our very first Research Culture Week, taking place on campus from Monday 28 March – Friday 1 April. Join this unique opportunity for Coventry University research colleagues to come together to learn, share and collaborate through a series of face-to-face and online sessions. Don’t miss out, come along to drive the discussion on how to build the best research environment at Coventry, for all. Register now.’
CTA: Either Research Culture Week (sharepoint.com) OR www.eventsforce.net/rcw
Malta Classics Association for the International Conference of Contemporary Research in Classics
Doctoral student Kirsty Harrod will present research at the Malta Classics Association for the international Conference of Contemporary Research in Classics. On 24th March, they will be presenting a paper titled ‘Rape and Respectability in the Athenian Oikos’
Exhibition at Ikon Gallery Birmingham
Graham Chorlton gave a talk on 18th March at Ikon Gallery Birmingham as part of their exhibition ‘Carlo Crivelli; Shadows on the Sky’.
Focussing on the painting ‘The Annunciation with St Emidius’ 1486, he discussed various aspects of Crivelli’s work with particular focus on his use of architecture, and alongside this discussed his own use of architecture in his painting ‘Edge of town #3’.
For more information please see here
Dr Imogen Peck has just been made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She joins CAMC’s Fellows Dr Victoria Leonard, Professor Juliet Simpson and Professor Patricia Phillippy.
Carolina Rito at Rampa Gallery in Porto
On the 26th of March, Carolina Rito will be conversation with artist and researcher Ludgero Almeida, at Rampa Gallery in Porto. This event is part of the parallel programme of the “Da Imagem Ausente” exhibition. In "Da Imagem Ausente" exhibition, the artist analyses the processes through which the region's historic narrative is constructed, questioning the mythologies that glorify its fake prosperity, blind to the bleak living conditions of most of his fellow citizens. The conversation will touch on the politics of archives, contested memories and post-industrial geographies.
Fri 26th March 5pm (GMT)
Galeria Rampa
Pátio do Bolhão 125
4000-110 Porto, Portugal
International Women's Day
CAMC Celebrates International Women's Day by recognizing our amazing staff and PGR's
Coventry Premoderns present at Renaissance Society of America Conference in Dublin
Dr Victoria Ríos Castaño and Professor Patricia Phillippy will present papers at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in Dublin on 1st April as part of a panel organized on behalf of the newly-formed Coventry Premoderns research cluster in CAMC. They will be joined on the panel, entitled ‘Climate Change in Pre-Industrial Europe and America: Texts, Artefacts, Attitudes’, by Dr Madeline Bassenett of Western University (Canada) and Professor Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami (chair).
For more information, click here
Carolina Rito is visiting lecturer at Grenoble University
Carolina Rito is visiting lecturer at the public seminars of the MA Reach (Practice-based research: collaborative practices in Arts and History).
REACH explores what answers can arts and culture provide us with addressing the major questions brought about by a future, that seems so difficult to imagine. “Culture being social connection itself », as Edgar Morin stated, asks us to question this shared destiny we are heading for, and the form it takes. The new academic minor REACH focus on the capacity the arts have to address the ways in which the new global circumstances can impact humanity as well as the artistic and critical forms that enable us to envisage the future. The research creation minor prepares the students to produce a collective artwork at the end of the second year. The creative training addresses the symbolic, the narratives concerning the environmental, socioeconomic, migratory and democratic issues with interartistic practices, involving the body, the voice, writing, mise en scène, images and sound.
Thu 31st March at 6pm (CET)
Amphitheatre MaCI
Grenoble-Alps University
Orosius Through the Ages
Paulus Orosius (ca. 417 CE), as imagined scribing his History in an eleventh-century manuscript. Image in the public domain
Victoria Leonard's international conference, 'Orosius Through the Ages', will take place in May.
Victoria Leonard (CAMC Research Fellow) has organised an international conference, 'Orosius Through the Ages', 25-27 May 2022. The event will take place online and at the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. It features two keynote speakers, Prof. Elizabeth Tyler (University of York) and Prof. Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent University), as well as twenty-one presenters. The conference is framed by a Wikipedia editathon, supported by MedievalWiki. This event aims to improve the visibility of those who identify as women and non-binary in Orosian studies on Wikipedia. The Call for Papers for the conference closed on 8 December 2021, and registration will open in due course.
For further information, please see the conference website here, or get in touch with Victoria: victoria.leonard@coventry.ac.uk.
Carolina Rito at Ghent University
Caption: Fig. 3 Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (2017), I Can Hear the Barbarians, Performance. Photographed by Samuel Kirby
In April, Carolina Rito participates in a conference organized by Ghent University and KASK titled “From the scenic essay to the essay exhibition. Expanding the essay form in the arts beyond literature and film”. Carolina’s paper explores the essayistic capacities of the exhibitionary as a speculative and propositional gesture. Rito’s paper, titled “The Essayistic in the Curatorial”, aims to mobilise exhibitionary tools (aesthetic, spatial, theoretical, epistemic) to analyse and intervene in the field of aesthetics and its politics.
Ghent University
KASK
27th – 29th April 2022
CAMC PGR Event - 16th February 2022
CAMC held a PGR event last month and the event was a huge success. It gave a great opportunity for PGR's to meet and share ideas over a buffet lunch provided by the centre.
Carolina Rito’s keynote at Copenhagen University
Carolina Rito is keynote speaker at the Connect/Cut. Infrastructures and collective activity Conference organised by the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, at Copenhagen University, Denmark. The conference Connect/Cut explores the infrastructures that mediate space, time, visibility, and access in the arts and beyond. In this context, we ask how a range of social phenomena – from aesthetic production and experience to political configurations of public spaces – are put to work by the material, technological and historical processes that undergird different modernities.
Carolina Rito will present a paper titled “The infrastructures of the exhibitionary: reimagining the epistemic and aesthetic functions of exhibition practices”, exploring the questions: What are the epistemic attributes/potentials/practices/outcomes of the curatorial and the exhibitionary as a post-exhibition infrastructure?; If the infrastructure of the exhibitionary is not limited to the making-public of the artwork, what are its aesthetics attributes and political capacities?
Time: 6 Apr. - 8 Apr. 2022
Place: South Campus, Copenhagen University
Organizer: Art as Forum, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
For more information see here
Events
Critical Practices Seminars Programme 2022
Critical Practices Seminars is a series of seminars aiming at PhD practice researchers and academic staff to discuss topical issues in the field of contemporary art and curating. These seminars aim to collectively produce critical tools to challenge the neoliberal imperatives in contemporary art and curatorial practices, and to speculate about the future of research in these fields. The seminars seek to facilitate a debate on key areas of practice research with the contribution of guest speakers and participants. The series starts by looking at: key ideas around practice research, decolonial practices, de-neoliberalisation, and alternatives to evaluation metrics. The series is designed as an open forum for the collective elaboration of ideas.
Critical Practice is a research strand at CAMC that seeks to advance new understandings for practice in academia. Critical practices challenge the affirmative categories of evidence and metrics, and strive for a critical understanding of the politics of aesthetics and representation and their roles in the production of new imaginaries.
Upcoming Seminars:
Fri 22nd April 2022 10.30am-12pm
Rolando Vázquez
Decolonial Transition within Institutions
Wed 11th May 10.30am-12pm
Gary Hall
The De-liberalisation of Society
Wed 8th June 10.30am-12pm
Janneke Adema
Value Beyond Metrics
Postgraduate Research Symposium 19-20 May
The Postgraduate Research Symposium is a chance for PGRs from all the Centres of the Institute for Creative Cultures to showcase their research, no matter the stage, learn about the work in the Centres, make connections and build networks. It will be an opportunity for:
PGRs to exhibit their practice outputs in the Institute but also introduce, explore or engage attendees in a practical exploration of their work
There will be Presentations, Practice Sharing, Provocations and Panel Discussions.
Registration will open shortly, please look out for further information.
Approaching the (Family) Archive:
Challenges and Reflections
A Series of Online, Interdisciplinary Workshops
May 2022-January 2023
Dusty shoeboxes of papers; drawers of textiles and treasured keepsakes; scrapbooks and albums of tickets, photographs, and ephemera: our homes are sites of intergenerational collection and curation. And yet, though the recent ‘archival turn’ has led to a renewed interest in the collections compiled by institutions and eminent individuals, we know rather less about the papers and artefacts accumulated by families and the diverse meanings that these items have possessed for those created and preserved them. The materials of family life are rarely approached as ‘archives’ – but, when transferred into local and national record offices, these same collections go on to form a significant part of our nation’s archival heritage.
This series of workshops seeks to bring together practitioners from a range of disciplines, periods, and geographic contexts to explore some of the major challenges that confront scholars working on, and with, family collections and archives, ideologically, methodologically, conceptually, and practically.
Each workshop centres around a particular “challenge” and features a paper by a guest speaker who will reflect on the ways that they have approached this issue in their own work. The rest of the workshop will be given over to questions and an open-ended discussion of the issues raised, allowing scholars share practice and connect with other researchers working in the fields of family, memory, collections, and archival practice.
Culminating in a two-day conference on ‘Family Archives’ in March 2023, it is hoped that these workshops will offer a space for both new and established scholars to discuss, not just the results of their research, but the processes, practices, and challenges that have informed it.
Workshop 1: Collected, Curated, Other?
(25th May 2022, 10am)
As anyone who has perused the contents of an archival catalogue entry for ‘family papers’ will be aware, family collections can contain a huge variety of material, from carefully arranged and annotated family books to piles of unlabelled receipts and old silk shoes. How should we understand the sheer variety of ‘stuff’ which comprises these collections? What ‘hierarchy of value’ enables us to sort the significant and deliberate safekeeping of certain items from seemingly chaotic accumulations of clutter? And is there any merit in doing so?
Speakers: Dr Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide) and Dr Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary, London)
For more information and details for registration please email Dr Imogen Peck
Publications
Professor Hilary Nesi gave two invited talks in March, one for the Systemic Functional Linguistics Association of Tunisia, at the University of Sfax, and one for the Department of English Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA, Pretoria) as part of a seminar series under the theme, "Interrogating Applied English Language Issues from Diverse Perspectives". She has a chapter in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography, out this month.
Image: Yellow House, by John Devane
