Jack Halberstam gave a riveting paper yesterday on her new book The Queer Art of Failure (2011), which looks at, amongst other things, how failure can be used to mobilize radical politics.
To listen to a podcast of the talk and the Q&A that followed click here: Jack Halberstam
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the venue for the PoP Moves has been changed. We will now be meeting at the Docklands campus of the University of East London (University Way, E16 2RD). This is located beside the Cyprus station on the DLR. See the Docklands campus map here.
For more details on the venue change click here: Amplifying Movement IMP [...]
[ 8 December 2011; 19:30 to 21:30. ] From Techno to dubstep, the most significant dance music cultures emerge locally but impact globally. This discussion looks at how dance scenes emerge from specific local geographies and what happens to them when they migrate and go viral.
Speakers to include George Mahood and Derek Walmsley
Location: Circus 2 at Stratford Circus Nearest tube: Stratford
Price: General public £3, students £1
This [...]
[ 3 November 2011; 19:30 to 21:30. ] As part of the Critical Beats seminar series (co-hosted with The Wire), the Sound, Technology & Microgenres event will be a discussion of the way emergent technologies enable dance music to constantly renew itself by spawning multiple new subgenres, and what those subgenres say about the scenes they emerge from.
Panel: Adam Harper, Matthew Ingram and Mike Paradinas
Moderator: [...]
CCSR is organising two interlinked music series this year. One is titled ‘Music, Politics, Agency’. The other, which we’re organising in association with The Wire and Mark Fisher, is titled ‘Critical Beats’.
Details below:
Critical Beats: Sound, Technology, Microgenre, Rhythm
Date: 3 November 2011, Circus 2 at Stratford Circus, 19:30-21:30, general public £3, students £1.
Participants: Lisa Blanning (chair), Adam Harper, [...]
[ 26 October 2011; 17:00 to 19:00. ] Jack Halberstam will discuss her new book, The Queer Art of Failure, published by Duke University Press in the autumn of 2011, at a Centre for Cultural Studies Research symposium on 26 October 2011. Author of Female Masculinity and In a Queer Time and Place, and also keynote speaker at the Cultural Studies Now conference [...]
[ 29 October 2011; 09:00 to 18:00. 09:00 to 18:00. 09:00 to 18:00. ] CCSR, alongside the Institute for Performing Arts Development (IPAD), Roehampton University, Kingston University, De Montfort University, University of Chichester and the Society for Dance Research present, PoP Moves, the annual popular dance studies symposium.
This year, PoP Moves is promising to be an exciting international event. The theme, “Amplifying movement: New directions in popular dance studies,” has [...]
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