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Labour, Livelihood and Culture: Crafts and Music in the Middle East, South and Central Asia
Friday 24th May 2013. Chancellor Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
The Middle East, South and Central Asia Forum (MESCAF), Institute of Musical Research (IMR), School of Advanced Studies, University of London. Art and Design Research Institute (ADRI), Middlesex University, London. British Forum of Ethnomusicology (BFE)
Day 1, Friday 24 May, Chancellor Hall, Senate House
10.00am Registration and coffee
Panel 1 - Livelihood And Sustainability: Artisans In The Contemporary World
Chair: John Ballyn
10.30: Maham Anjum, Royal College of Art, 'Artisanal craft pottery in Sri Lanka and the Development of New Markets'
11.00: Priyanka Basu, School of Oriental and African Studies, 'The hand in the song: Gender-labour relationship in the arts of the Chitrakar community of West Bengal'
11.30: Neelam Raina, Middlesex University, 'Craft, Culture, Survival in Kashmir'
12.30pm Lunch Break
Panel 2 - Performers And Artisans: Past And Present
Chair: Neelam Raina, Middlesex University
1.30: Nicolas Magriel, 'Jajmani: Patronage in Rajasthani Manganiyar music'
2.10: Razak Khan, Freie University, Berlin, 'The Cultural Space of Labour: Crafts and Music in Urdu Literary Culture'
2.40: Anna Morcom, Royal Holloway, 'Female Public/Erotic Performers, Marginalisation and the Value of Labour'
3.00pm - 4.00pm Keynote Speech
Professor Maxine Berg - 'Producing Material Culture for Global Markets: Craftspeople of Eighteenth and Twenty-first Century India'
Chair: Katherine Schofield, King's College
4.00pm Tea Break
Panel 3 - Class, Mobility, Business And Entrepreneurship
Chair: Rachel Harris, School of Oriental and African Studies
4.15: Akshaya Kumar, University of Glasgow, 'De-Accenting the Labouring Self in Performance: Subjective Economy of the Bhojpuri Culture Industry'.
4.45: Kendra Salois, University of California, Berkeley, 'Values That Pay: Sincerity, Class, and Self-Entrepreneurship in Moroccan Hip Hop'.
5.15: Kristen Rudisill, Bowling Green State University, 'Reality Television and the Business of Dance in Chennai, India'
5.45pm - 7.00pm Drinks Reception
Day 2, Saturday 25 May, Room 243, Senate House
Networking and Research Publication Discussion day
11.00: Introduction round by publishers, indication of area of specialist interest
11.40: Round table discussion about panels and potential publication interest
12.00: Open forum
2.00: Close of the day
Valerie James
Consortium Administrative Manager, IGRS, IMR and IP
Institute of Musical Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
www.music.sas.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7664 4865
Fax: 020 7664 4867
The IMR's Offices are based in Room 277.
The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194)
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