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Hi Nabil This looks really interesting - are there still any places as I would love to attend? Rosey Rosey Whorlow Senior lecturer in Media Studies University of Chichester Tel: 01243816233 Mob: 078 43 080 252 ________________________________ From: Interdisciplinary discussion on human embodiment [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Nesreen Nabil Hussein [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 28 April 2012 22:20 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Reminder: Creative Practices/Resistant Acts - 9 May - ICA, London Dear colleagues, This is a reminder of the forthcoming interdisciplinary symposium that will take place on 9th May at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and which is supported by the University of Kent (the School of Arts in collaboration with the School of Politics and International Relations). Please find below the programme of the day. Further information on presenters, abstracts and an e-flyer are attached. Please feel free to forward this information to whoever you think might be interested. Best wishes, Nesreen Hussein CREATIVE PRACTICES / RESISTANT ACTS: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND EMERGING DEMOCRACIES IN REVOLUTIONARY NATIONS 9 MAY 2012 – ICA, LONDON 9:30am – 7:30pm The focus of this one-day symposium is the current and on-going Revolutions and popular uprisings in the Arab world and beyond, and their wider political, social and cultural implications. The people’s mobilisation of these globally significant events succeeded in, and is aiming towards, destabilising the state’s power and countering hegemonic narratives of oppression. A crucial aspect of the revolutions is their nature as creative acts that are serving to reclaim the people’s senses of empowerment, belonging and national identity. People’s peaceful struggle has evoked a proliferation of forms of creative expression and ‘performative’ acts of resistance that transformed public spaces and urban geography as a response to the transformation in people’s attitudes towards the status quo. Demonstrations, marches, various acts of civil disobedience witnessed the formation of ‘alternative communities’ that found a platform for the newly formed narratives of democracy in various mediums and artistic traditions. A diversity of forms have been reclaimed or reshaped; from graffiti to street performance to song and poetry, intervening in the spaces of illegitimate authority and subverting dynamics of aggression. A year from the start of the revolutions, this symposium will examine the role of ‘creative practices’ in sustaining narratives of democracy, and generating new understandings of notions of citizenship. Programme 9:30 – 10:00 – Opening (Nesreen Hussein & Iain MacKenzie) Public Space, Identity & ‘New Democracy’ 10:00 – 11:00 – George Sotiropolous: Nothing for Us Without Us: Staging Democracy in the Squares of the World 11:00 – 12:00 – Ziad Adwan: From the Desirable Lightness of Demonstration to Instinctive Survival Chair: Iain MacKenzie 12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch Creative Practices & Revolutionary Aesthetics 13:00 – 14:00 – Reem Kelani: Music: Documenting Song and Cultural Resistance (Accompanied by Bruno Heinen on piano, accordion and percussion) 14:00 – 15:00 – Ayman El-Desoukey: The Quest for Amāra: Connective Agency and the Aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution Chair: TBC 15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee The Politics of Production & Participation 15:30 – 16:30 – Helen Varopoulou: Politics and Interculturalism 16:30 – 17:30 – Hans-Thies Lehmann: The Problem of Participation in Contemporary Theatre Work Chair: Nesreen Hussein 17:30 – 17:45 – Break 17:45 – 18:45 - No Time for Art / 0. Performance by Laila Soliman 18:45 – 19:30 – Roundtable discussion The symposium is organized by Nesreen Hussein<https://owa.connect.kent.ac.uk/owa/14.1.355.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=56cf572e024e478a8366de29f9785002&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.kent.ac.uk%2farts%2fstaff-profiles%2fprofiles%2fdrama%2fhussein.html> (the School of Arts), in collaboration with Iain MacKenzie<https://owa.connect.kent.ac.uk/owa/14.1.355.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=56cf572e024e478a8366de29f9785002&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.kent.ac.uk%2fpolitics%2fabout-us%2fstaff%2fmembers%2fmackenzie.html> (the School of Politics and International Relations). The event is kindly supported by the School of Arts in collaboration with the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. This symposium is free, but booking is essential. For further information and to reserve a place, please contact organisers at ([log in to unmask]<https://owa.connect.kent.ac.uk/owa/14.1.355.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=56cf572e024e478a8366de29f9785002&URL=mailto%3an.hussein%40kent.ac.uk>) or ([log in to unmask]<https://owa.connect.kent.ac.uk/owa/14.1.355.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=56cf572e024e478a8366de29f9785002&URL=mailto%3ai.mackenzie%40kent.ac.uk>) The Institute of Contemporary Arts. 12 Carlton House Terrace, The Mall. London SW1Y 5AH. The nearest tube stations are Charing Cross (Northern and Bakerloo lines) and Piccadilly Circus (Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines). Dr Nesreen Hussein Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies The School of Arts 2-30 Jarman Building University of Kent Canterbury Kent CT2 7UG [log in to unmask] T.: 01227(82)3407 http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff-profiles/profiles/drama/hussein.html<https://owa.connect.kent.ac.uk/owa/14.1.355.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=56cf572e024e478a8366de29f9785002&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.kent.ac.uk%2farts%2fstaff-profiles%2fprofiles%2fdrama%2fhussein.html> This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender as soon as practicable and delete the e-mail from the system. The University of Chichester is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales. Registration number 4740553. The registered office is College Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 6PE.