Dear colleagues,
on Friday, 11th May 2012, the UCL Faculty Institute of Graduate
Studies (FIGS) will host a one-day
interdisciplinary conference on "Collapse", which may be of interest
to members of the list. The event
is free and open to all. To register your interest in attending, please visit
http://figs-forum-may2012.eventbrite.co.uk/
Best wishes,
Florian Mussgnug
FIGS Friday Forum
'collapse'
Friday 11 May 2012, 10.30am to 5.30pm
Arts and Humanities Common Room, Foster Court G24
10.00
Opening and welcome
Mary Fulbrook (German) and Florian Mussgnug (Italian)
10.05-11.20
Session One: Places of Collapse
chaired by Joy Sleeman (Slade)
Hilary Powell (Bartlett): ?Structures of Enchantment?
Jane Madsen (Bartlett): ?The Space of Collapse: A Two Part Terrain?
Matthew Beaumont (English): ?The Deserted City in the 18th Century?
Florian Mussgnug (Italian): ?Scaling Down Catastrophe?
11.20-11.45
Tea / coffee break
11.45-1.00
Session Two: Collapse in Literature and Film
chaired by Federica Mazzara (Italian)
Susanne Kord (German): ?Guilt Trips: A New Theory of Horror Movies?
Matilde Nardelli (Film Studies): ?Deserts, Ends and Beginnings?
Jonathan Davies (English): ?The untimely architecture of war in J.G. Ballard?
Alexandra Hills (German): "Collapsing the boundary between human and animal?
1.00 - 1.30
Sandwich lunch - provided by FIGS
1.30 - 2.30
Session Three: Collapse and the Capital
chaired by Matthew Beaumont (English)
Ben Campkin (Urban Laboratory / Bartlett): ?Sink estate spectacle in
south-east London"
Louis Moreno (Urban Laboratory / Geography): ?Concretising collapse:
the urbanisation of creative destruction?
Hayley Newman (Slade): ?Being Common?
2.30 - 3.30
Session Four: Meanings of Collapse
chaired by Florian Mussgnug (Italian)
Lesley Caldwell (Italian / Psychoanalysis Unit): ?Breakdown?
Dana Ariel (Slade): ?Unlearning?
Marianna Simnett (Slade): ?Faint?
3.30 - 3.50
Tea/coffee break
3.50 - 4.50
Session Five: Working with Wreckage
chaired by Sharon Morris (Slade)
Richard Taws (History of Art) ?The Afterlife of Money?
Fiona Curran (Slade): ?Paradise Lost? Contemporary Design and The
Corruption of Nature?
Bob Lumley (Italian): ?war horse, warhorse: collapse of, in archival film?
4.50 - 5.10
General discussion
chaired by Joy Sleeman (Slade)
5.10 - 6.00
Drinks reception
Our response to collapse is informed by centuries of artefacts and
their interpretations, but also by urgency and vital needs.
Incidences of massive devastation ? catastrophic events, experiences
of slow but relentless decay ? threaten our physical habitat and our
comforting ideological constructions, and force us to re-interpret
cultural conventions in the light of an uncomfortable, or even
menacing present.
This study day will investigate the reasons for our fascination with
collapse, decline, ruins, the fall of civilizations. We intend to
consider the representation of these topics in modern and contemporary
narratives and cultural artifacts, and will discuss how collapse is
defined and measured in different disciplines.
How do ideas of collapse travel from art, literature and popular
culture to civil engineering, architectural design, urban planning? Do
they have an influence on scientific research?
Moreover, do current responses to fragmentation and decline reflect
earlier cultural forms (e.g. elegy, religious eschatology)? How are
psychoanalytic models relevant to our understanding of collapsing
habitats?Finally, do experiences with mortality and the expectation of
individual death constitute a paradigm?
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 15:35:03 +0000
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Subject: "Collapse" International Conference at UCL
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Dear colleagues,
on Friday, 11th May 2012, the UCL Faculty Institute of Graduate
Studies (FIGS) will host a one-day
interdisciplinary conference on "Collapse", which may be of interest
to members of the list. The event
is free and open to all. To register your interest in attending, please visit
http://figs-forum-may2012.eventbrite.co.uk/
Best wishes,
Florian Mussgnug
FIGS Friday Forum
'collapse'
Friday 11 May 2012, 10.30am to 5.30pm
Arts and Humanities Common Room, Foster Court G24
10.00
Opening and welcome
Mary Fulbrook (German) and Florian Mussgnug (Italian)
10.05-11.20
Session One: Places of Collapse
chaired by Joy Sleeman (Slade)
Hilary Powell (Bartlett): ?Structures of Enchantment?
Jane Madsen (Bartlett): ?The Space of Collapse: A Two Part Terrain?
Matthew Beaumont (English): ?The Deserted City in the 18th Century?
Florian Mussgnug (Italian): ?Scaling Down Catastrophe?
11.20-11.45
Tea / coffee break
11.45-1.00
Session Two: Collapse in Literature and Film
chaired by Federica Mazzara (Italian)
Susanne Kord (German): ?Guilt Trips: A New Theory of Horror Movies?
Matilde Nardelli (Film Studies): ?Deserts, Ends and Beginnings?
Jonathan Davies (English): ?The untimely architecture of war in J.G. Ballard?
Alexandra Hills (German): "Collapsing the boundary between human and animal?
1.00 - 1.30
Sandwich lunch - provided by FIGS
1.30 - 2.30
Session Three: Collapse and the Capital
chaired by Matthew Beaumont (English)
Ben Campkin (Urban Laboratory / Bartlett): ?Sink estate spectacle in
south-east London"
Louis Moreno (Urban Laboratory / Geography): ?Concretising collapse:
the urbanisation of creative destruction?
Hayley Newman (Slade): ?Being Common?
2.30 - 3.30
Session Four: Meanings of Collapse
chaired by Florian Mussgnug (Italian)
Lesley Caldwell (Italian / Psychoanalysis Unit): ?Breakdown?
Dana Ariel (Slade): ?Unlearning?
Marianna Simnett (Slade): ?Faint?
3.30 - 3.50
Tea/coffee break
3.50 - 4.50
Session Five: Working with Wreckage
chaired by Sharon Morris (Slade)
Richard Taws (History of Art) ?The Afterlife of Money?
Fiona Curran (Slade): ?Paradise Lost? Contemporary Design and The
Corruption of Nature?
Bob Lumley (Italian): ?war horse, warhorse: collapse of, in archival film?
4.50 - 5.10
General discussion
chaired by Joy Sleeman (Slade)
5.10 - 6.00
Drinks reception
Our response to collapse is informed by centuries of artefacts and
their interpretations, but also by urgency and vital needs.
Incidences of massive devastation ? catastrophic events, experiences
of slow but relentless decay ? threaten our physical habitat and our
comforting ideological constructions, and force us to re-interpret
cultural conventions in the light of an uncomfortable, or even
menacing present.
This study day will investigate the reasons for our fascination with
collapse, decline, ruins, the fall of civilizations. We intend to
consider the representation of these topics in modern and contemporary
narratives and cultural artifacts, and will discuss how collapse is
defined and measured in different disciplines.
How do ideas of collapse travel from art, literature and popular
culture to civil engineering, architectural design, urban planning? Do
they have an influence on scientific research?
Moreover, do current responses to fragmentation and decline reflect
earlier cultural forms (e.g. elegy, religious eschatology)? How are
psychoanalytic models relevant to our understanding of collapsing
habitats?Finally, do experiences with mortality and the expectation of
individual death constitute a paradigm?
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