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Study group members may be interested in the below event.
Booking for Culture and Social Change: The role of aesthetics is now open through the LSE online store (http://eshop.lse.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=62). The cost is £50 for two days, including lunch and refreshments. For more information please contact Dr Cristiana Olcese at [log in to unmask]
Please note last booking date for this event 30th November 2013
Culture and Social Change: The role of aesthetics
Speakers include: Peter Bearman (Columbia); Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths); Claudio Benzecry (Connecticut); Georgina Born (Oxford); James Brassett (Warwick); Roberto Franzosi (Emory); Laurie Hanquinet (York); Sarah Nettleton (York); Cristiana Olcese (LSE); Marco Santoro (Bologna); Mike Savage (LSE).
16 and 17 December 2013, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE
Bourdieu’s seminal work has influenced the agenda of sociology of culture like no other. As a result, art – as symbolic representations of culture – is still mainly perceived as a means of distinction. Attention has been given to dynamics of art production and art consumption actively contributing to the reproduction of existing power relations. This focus has been at the expenses of other relevant cross-class dynamics: mainly the role of aesthetics in meaning development, and its impact on social relations. This conference aims to put aesthetics at the centre of the sociology of culture’s emerging research agenda and to lay the basis for an understanding of culture and the arts beyond entertainment and the consolidation of existing social boundaries.
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