Conference: For What It’s Worth: Nostalgia, Sustainability and the Values of the Present

Provisional Schedule

Thursday, 28 April 2016

13:00-14:00  Registration (GCSC Foyer)

14:00-18:00  Master Class (MFR; special registration required)

• Prof. Nicholas Brown (Illinois, Chicago), ‘Art as Object, Art as Commodity’

18:00-20:00  Reception and exhibition opening (Exhibition Space)

Friday, 29 April 2016

[90-minute panels with 3 speakers, 20 minutes each, and 30 minutes for questions]

09:00-09:30  Registration (GCSC Foyer)

09:30-10:00  Welcome and Introduction (MFR)

10:00-10:15   Break (GCSC Foyer)

10:15-11:45  Panel One: Past and Post- Utopias (MFR)

11:45-12:00  Break (GCSC Foyer)

12:00-13:30  Panel Two: Critical Narratives: Cycle or Progression? (MFR)

13:30-15:00  Lunch (Mensa)

15:00-16:30  Panel Three: Remembering Anew: Education and Memory (MFR)

16:30-16:45  Break (GCSC Foyer)

16:45-17:45  Talk with the Artists (MFR)

17:45-18:00  Break (GCSC Foyer)

18:00-20:00  Keynote Lecture 1 (MFR)

• Prof. Mita Banerjee (Mainz)

20:00              Dinner (Venue TBC)

Saturday, 30 April 2016

09:30-11:30  Keynote Lecture 2 (MFR)

• Prof. Nicholas Brown (Illinois, Chicago)

11:30-11:45 Break (GCSC Foyer)

[90-minute panels with 3 speakers, 20 minutes each, and 30 minutes for questions]

11:45-13:15   Panel Four: Temporalities of Praxis and Performance (MFR)

13:15-14:45   Lunch (Mensa)

14:45-16:15  Panel Five: Material Cultures: Becoming Future (MFR)

16:15-16:30  Break (GCSC Foyer)

16:30-18:00  Panel Six: Transnational and Post-human Identities (MFR)

18:00-19:00  Closing Discussion (MFR)