Conference Programme
Cultures of the Left in the Age of Right Wing Populism
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Conference Programme
April 15th
10:45-11.30 Gathering
11.30 – 11. 45 Welcome
Bishnupriya Dutt (JNU, India) & Silvija Jestrović (University of Warwick, UK)
11-45 – 13.00 Keynote I
Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster
The Role of Affects in Agonistic Politics
Chair: Janelle Reinelt
13.00 – 13.45 Reception/Lunch
13.45 – 15.15
Panel I: AssembliesChair: Shirin Rai, Warwick University, UK Adrian Kear, University of Arts London Staging the People: Performance, presence and representation
Igor Štiks, Faculty of Media and Communication, Belgrade Self-Management as (artistic) inspiration: the foretold death and a surprising resurrection Lily Maeve Climenhaga, University of Alberta and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität What Cannot be Imagined: Milo Rau’s ‘General Assembly’ and Practical Populism of the Left
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Panel II: Collective Memory, Community, and New Formations of ‘We’Chair: Trish Ried, Kingston University, UK Adriana Diaconu, University of Grenoble Alpes, France & Grégory Busquet, University of Paris-Nanterre, France Living Archives as embodied collective memories: Forms of resistance and claiming a right to the city Marianne Drugeon, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier Community Plays: Creating a New Unity in Society Anika Marschall, University of Glasgow, UK Of loud and quiet resistance
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15.15 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.00
Panel III: Agonistic Tactics: From Streets to Digital SpacesChair: Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa, Canada Andy Lavender, University of Warwick, Uk Neopopulism, neoliberalism and the performance of protest
Natasha Lushetich, University of Dundee, UK Glitch, Bending, Obfuscation: A Destinerrant Tactic of the Left
Dragan Todorović, University of Kent, UK Mapping Resistance in Hyper-Space
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Panel IV: Strategies of Left-Wing Populism: Parties, Disruptions and Charismatic Leaders (Room TBA)Chair: Anupama Roy, JNU, India Rebecca Hillman, University of Exeter, UK & Sarah Weston, University of Leeds, UK Momentum and the disco turn: popular strategies for Party politics and rebuilding political cultures of the Left in 21st century Britain.
Theo Aiolfi, University of Warwick, UK Exploring the tension between performance of ordinariness and extraordinariness: the case of Jean-Luc Mélenchon as an illustration of charismatic leadership in left-wing populism Lone Sorensen, University of Huddersfield, UK The performance of left-wing populism in transitional democracy: the case of the disrupted South African State of the Nation address
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Free time
April 16th
9.30 -11.00
Panel V: Political Performance and ActivismChair: Mallarika Sinha Roy, JNU Eleftheria Ioannidou, University of Groningen, Netherlands Proletarian and Fascist Performance Cultures: Revisiting Frames of Analysis Aparna Mahiyaria, University of Exeter, UK Political Performance: Building Equal and Opposite Forces of Action Steve Wilmer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Transnational Nationalism; or, Are Theatres Becoming Dangerous?
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Panel VI: Aesthetics of ResistanceChair: Ameet Parameswaram, JNU, New Delhi, India (TR) Vicky Angelaki, University of Reading, UK From Community Reflection to Resistance: Interventionist Political Performance in Austria Today Amanda Stuart Fisher, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK Theatre of Witnessing and the ‘aesthetic of resistance’: The revenant as a political poetics Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa, Canada Fahrenheit 1789/20? Staging a New Left – Reclaiming Cosmopolitanism
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11.00 -11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.45
Panel VII: Performing Otherness and TogethernessChair: Anika Marschall, University of Glasgow, UK Emine Fişek, Boğaziçi University Istanbul, Turkey Representing Migration: Idioms of Crisis and Resistance in Turkey Helene Grøn, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMnet), UK ”Not just theatre, also politics, law”: Democratic assemblies and theatre-making with detention centre Sjælsmark and Trampoline House. Jelena Vasiljević, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia Performing reactive and political solidarity in neoliberal Serbia
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Panel VIII: Leftist Politics by Other Means: Making ResistanceChair: Trina Nileena Banerjee, Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London, UK Quite the best news in some considerable time Paul Clarke, University of Bristol, UK ‘Uninvited Guests’ Make Better Please: Profaning the News Media, Democratic Apparatus and Political Consensus Ulfet Sevdi, Concordia University, Montreal & Nicolas Royer-Artuso, Laval University, Quebec City The Difficulty of Creating Political Performance in North America: Going Beyond the Symptoms and Beyond (Neo) Liberal “Engaged” Performance
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12:50 – 13.20 Interventions
‘Battle of Stories’-- a ProvocationChair: Andy Lavender, University of Warwick Susan Haedicke & Tim White (University of Warwick, UK)
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Last Pioneer: Childhood-Happiness and Midlife Utopia– Performance presentationChair: Silvija Jestrovic, University of Warwick Snezana Golubović, performance artists, Germany/Yugoslavia
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13.30 – 14.50 Break (Lunch at Trattoria Storica)
15.00 – 16.15 Keynote II
Nivedita Menon JNU, New Delhi, India
Performing the Constitution as an Insurgent Document
Chair: Milija Gluhović, University of Warwick, UK
16.15-16.30 Break
16.30 -18.00
Panel IX: Indian Cultures of the Left: Personal, Political and Theatrical HistoriesChair: Urmimala Sarkar JNU, New Delhi, India
Shirin Rai, University of Warwick, UK One Fails to Speak of Things one Loves
Shayoni Mitra, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA People’s Culture and the National Imagination: Delhi IPTA and the Experiments in Cultural Progressivism Komita Dhanda, JNU & Jana Natya Manch agit-prop theatre Creating the Political, Bridging the Social: The Role of Praja Natya Mandali in Rural Andhra
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Panel X: Nationalism and Counter-NationalismChair: Igor Štiks, Faculty of Media and Communication, Belgrade Malcolm James, University of Sussex & Sivamohan Valluvan, University of Warwick Left Problems, Nationalism and the Crisis Tanzil Chowdhury, Queen Marry University, London & Bethany Shiner, Middlesex University, UK The UK Human Rights Act, Populism and Neoliberalism
Goran Petrović - Lotina, Ghent University & Sciences Po Paris Performing Counter Nationalism
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Free time
April 17th
Cultures of the Left: Gender, Aesthetics, Political Commitment
Co-chairs: Bishnupriya Dutt & Silvija Jestrovic (JNU/Warwick Collaboration)
9.30- 11.00
Panel XI: Feminist Lefts
Naaz Rashid, University of Sussex, UK
Turning Full Circle: Can left populism resolve the gender paradox?
Elaine Aston, Lancaster University, UK
The Hard Road to Feminism’s Renewal
Anuradha Kapur, theatre director, New Delhi – Respondent
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 13.15
Panel XII: Art of Political Commitment: Aesthetics & Efficacy
Janelle Reinelt, University of Warwick, UK
Performing an Aesthetics of the Left: Retrieval, Recuperation, Transformation
Tony Fisher, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
The Political Work of Art as “Speech Act” – the Efficacy Debate Reframed
Liz Tomlin, University of Glasgow, UK
Political Interpellation in Pluralist Times&Cassandra Commission (excerpt from spoken-word performance)
13.15-13.30 Further Reflections (All participants and delegates)
The End