‘The Aesthetics of Poverty’
Aesthetics of Poverty Workshop Programme
Thursday 30 June 12.00 – 19.00
- 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch (possibly with film installation, TBC)
Brief Introduction: Background / framework / subjects
- 13.00– 14.00 Keynote: Jonathan Vickery
- 14.00 -14.45 Panel 1: The aesthetics of poverty and colonialism
Panel Chair: TBC
Adrianna Catena, ‘The Colour of Saint Francis: Reflections on the Visual Culture of Poverty in Colonial New Spain’
Andrew Jones, ‘The ‘Pornography of Poverty’ Revisited: The Aesthetics of Non-State Humanitarianism’
- 14.45 -15.30 Panel 2: Labour, Citizenship and Migration
Panel chair: Rosie Doyle
Anne Gerritsen, ‘Making Chinese Things: Labour, crafts, and the cross-cultural aesthetic appeal of poverty’
Michael Orton, ‘Moving beyond othering: representations of poor citizens and a solutions based approach’
- 15.30-16.00 Tea / Coffee
- 16.00-17.00 Panel 3: The Aesthetics of Poverty & Spatial Order
Panel Chair: Jose Bento da Silva
Kathleen Vongsathorn, ‘Representations of Poverty and Leprosy in Uganda, 1927-2016’
Kathryn Woods, ‘The Perceived ‘Ugliness’ of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century London’
Julia McClure, ‘Poverty and the Social Ordering of Space’
- 17.00-17.15: Final Discussion
- 17.15-19.00: Wine Reception and Film showing and presentation by director, Emiel Marten, Welcome to the Smiling Coast, chaired by Santiago Oyazabal (film studies)