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Exclusively for MA students at Goldsmiths College.
"Failing Better: The Greatest MA Student Conference on Earth!
August 4th, 2006
11am to 6pm in the Small Cinema (Main Building, Goldsmiths)
A joint CCS and CUCR conference for MA students in Culture, Globalisation and the City, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Politics, and Sociology.
This student conference is intended as an opportunity for Masters students in the fields broadly related to the study of 'culture' to have an occasion to share our own exciting research and writing, to hear other people's research directions, and to give creative feedback and input.
As part of departments related to the broad study of 'culture', whether urban cultures, cultural studies, or anthropology and postcolonial studies, we share an interest in critically engaging with key questions in contemporary academic and political debates. Addressing issues around culture industries (high and low), globalism, colonialism in all its neo- and post- guises, identity, politics, alterity, hybridity, community, race and class, our scholarship is linked together by its resolute combination of theory and practice, and its keen importance for contemporary social theory. Our conference title is a pilfered paraphrase from Samuel Beckett, suggesting that while perfection is impossible, there is always the possibility of failing better (we are thinking here in the realms of both politics and research). Though not limited to the subject, submissions that examine the relevance of cultural studies to politics and polity today are particularly encouraged."
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Failing Better Graduate Conference
Friday, August 4th
11am-6pm
Small Hall
11:00 -12:00 - Brianne Selman, Pirate Heterotopias, Jen Clarke, TBA Chair: Gregor Claude
12:00 - 1:00 - Katina Saoulli, On Adorno and Sound, Maria Dumas, 'Racaille' or Displaced Citizens? Different Narratives Around the French Urban Riots , , India Macweeney, Lowriders Chair: Ben Gidley
1:00 - 2:30 - lunch
2:30 - 3:30 - Claire Heafford, What is the Value of Publically Funded Art? (A Neo-materialist Approach?), Rui Miguel Cepeda, Cultural Identities Through the Eyes of Contemporary Mexican Artists, Film: Documentary on Mexican Aesthetics Chair: John Hutnyk
3:30 - 4:30 - Bob Jeffery, Binge Drinking, Craig Edwards, The Male Homosocial Community of the Rugby Club, Eleanor Lindsay-Flynn , 'Fitting In'': Reflections on My position as a Freeman at the Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers Chair: Alison Rooke?
4:30 - 4:45 - tea break
4:45- 5:45 - Erdem Evren, Critique of the Production of Cultural Difference and Interpretation: Towards Anthropology as a Defensive Sport, Simon Cole , Radical Writing, Entering the (Un)political World of the Ethnographer , Tara Blake Wilson, Senses and the Self in Ethnography Chair: Michael Keith
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