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Raymond Williams Society First Annual ConferenceCultural Production and the Redundancy of Work:Precarity, Automation, CritiqueFriends Meeting House, Manchester()Friday 26th - Saturday 27th April 2019Registration: 26th April09.30 Registration and coffee10.30 Plenary Session (Upper Hall)Mike Wayne (Brunel University), ‘Industrialism and British Capitalism’Chair: David Alderson11.30 Panel Sessions:The Movement for Cultural Democracy (Upper Hall)Nick Mahony (independent researcher/project worker), ‘Realising Cultural Democracy: Long Revolutionary Politics in an Age of Brexit Break-downs’Stephen Pritchard (independent scholar/artist/campaigner): ‘Home is Where We Start With’Sophie Hope (Birkbeck College), ‘Cultural Democracy: Radical Histories and Collective Imaginings’Chair: Phil O’BrienLabour in Literature (G3)Joe Rollins (University of York), ‘“Working on Some Things”: Creative Labour in Alt Lit’Asako Nakai (Hitsubashi University), ‘The Convenience Store: Urban Workstyle Today and Tomorrow’Virginia Conn (Rutgers University), ‘Bodies of Work: Reading Lian Huan Hua as Science Fictional Praxis’Chair: Elinor TaylorTechnology, Cultural Form and Social Relations (G4)Xing Wang, ‘“Work in a Big Family”: Emotion Bond and Precarity in Post-Reform Chinese Television’(Loughborough University)Daniel Hartley (University of Durham), ‘“Mode of Production” or “Way of Life”? Raymond Williams in the Capitalocene’David Alderson (University of Manchester): ‘Chemsex, Capital and Repressive Incitement’Chair: David Wilkinson13.00 Lunch13.45 Panel SessionsThe Novel and Precarious Time (Upper Hall)Emily J. Hogg (University of Southern Denmark), ‘In Time: Novelistic and Precarious Temporalities’Mathies Gr?sborg Arhus (University of Southern Denmark), ‘Unemployed Anxiety’Bryan Yazell (University of Southern Denmark) ‘Climate Refugees and Precarious Time’Chair: Ben Harker6. The Future of the Counterculture (G3)Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham), ‘Alternative Socialist Futures in the Age of the Anthropocene: Marcuse, Freedom and the Post-Work Society’David Wilkinson, ‘“The Drop-Outs are Anticipating Future Economic Policy”: Work, Class and Countercultural Legacies’Martin Goodhead (Keele University), ‘Psychogeography as Oppositional Practice Within Iron Towns’Chair: Kristin Ewins4. How to Build a Counter-Hegemonic Position in the Postmodern Era (G4)Diego Parejo, Ignacio Elpidio Domínguez, Iván Alvarado (Autonomous University of Madrid)Chair: David Alderson15.15 Coffee15.30 Plenary Session (Upper Hall)Pablo Mukherjee (University of Warwick), ‘Laboratory Lives: Caste, Work and Indian Science Fiction’Chair: Elinor TaylorSaturday 27th April09.45 Plenary Session (Upper Hall)Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College, London), ‘Work in the Age of the Device’Chair: Ben Harker10.45 PanelsConfigurations of Class, Culture and Politics (Upper Hall)Richard Bromhall (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Thatcher’s Children: Class, the Novel and the Cultural Politics of Millenials’Daniel Gerke (University of Swansea), ‘Class and Non-Class: Williams, Gorz and the Communist Vision Today’Ben Harker (University of Manchester), ‘Henry Green’s Investments’Chair: Derek TattonForms of Labour, Forms of Culture (G3)Kate Montague (University of New South Wales), ‘Tragedy/Affect/Labour’Mark Steven (University of Exeter), ‘The Enemy Within: A Cultural Poetics of Class War’Martin Fowler (University of Cumbria), ‘Supermarket – Making Political Artworks Politically’Chair: David Alderson7. Raymond Williams Reading Group: Key Words with Tony Crowley, Elinor Taylor, Sharon Clancy and Nick Mahony (G4)This session has been sponsored by the Raymond Williams Foundation12.15 Lunch12.45 PanelsFiction and Futurity: Critique and Prefiguration (Upper Hall)Sean O’Brien (Birkbeck College, London),’ World-System Failure: Culture in an Age of Stagnation’Lucy Burke and Thomas Rudman (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘The Future is a Thing of the Past? Worklessness and Utopia in Contemporary Science Fiction’Robert Spencer, ‘The Post-Work Society in the Fiction of James Kelman’Chair: David AldersonPolitics, Praxis and Community (G3)Yaron Golan (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Capitalist Realism and Forgotten Meanings of Community’Fuhito Endo, (Seikei University Tokyo), ‘Affect and Cultural Production: Border Country and a Socialist Community’*Chair: Derek TattonThe Relations of Art: Institutions, Curation and Pedagogy (G4)Nikki Kane (University of Edinburgh), ‘Curatorial Responsibility and Cultural Labour’Dawn Bothwell (University of Sunderland), ‘Regional Intermedia’Paul Stewart (Teesside University), ‘Against Neoliberalism: Rethinking Art Production Through Its Own Production’Chair: Tony Crowley14.15 Coffee14.30 PanelsPerformance and Critique (Upper Hall)Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester), ‘The Dancing Bakers: An Investigation into Community Arts’Gillie Kleiman (University of Roehampton), ‘On Recreation’Swen Steinhauser (theatre maker, curator and dramaturg), ‘Amateur Barbarians: Taking Care of Culture in Crisis’Chair: Kristin EwinsSocial and Cultural Reproduction: Analysis and Critique (G3)Amy De’Ath (King’s College, London), ‘Anti-Social Reproduction: A Value Theory of Gender’Mollie Claypool (University College, London), ‘Our Automated Future: Rethinking the Culture of Architectural Production’James McIntyre (Loughborough University) ‘“Machinery has Superseded to a Great Extent Human Labour”: The Untimely Cultural Criticism and Positive Vision of a Nineteenth-Century Post-Work Movement’Chair: Phil O’BrienThe Country, The City and the Network (G4)Elinor Taylor (University of Westminster), ‘Problems of Labour and Hope in Contemporary British Realist Cinema’Shintaro Kono (Hitotsubashi University), ‘The Tale of Princes Kaguya, Second Nature, and Our Neoliberal Life’Guo Yong (Jiangnan University), ‘Network Poetry as Events’Chair: Tony Crowley16.00 Plenary Session (Upper Hall)Helen Hester (University of West London), ‘Work/Space: Architectures of Refusal from the Bachelor Pad to the Commune’Chair: Phil O’Brien ................
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