Margaret Litvin (Associate Professor for Arabic and Comparative Literature, Boston University)

Karenjit Clare (Geography, University of Cambridge) Adriana Cobo (Architecture, Central Saint Martins) Tatjana Crossley (Design, Architectural Association) Mary Freedman (Creative Arts, Queen’s University Belfast) Natalie Morningstar (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

Maria Kahn (MML, University of Cambridge) Amena Amer (Social Psychology and Behavioural Studies, LSE)

Workshop - 30 November 2018 - Session Two

Workshop - 30 November 2018 - Session One

Dr Rosie Wyles (Classical History and Literature, University of Kent) Matteo Augello (Centre for Fashion Curation, London College of Fashion) Ellen Robertson Martinez (Psychology, University of Cambridge)

The Medicalization of the Female Body: What Should Modern-Day Reproductive Technologies (not) Learn from Hippocrates and Aristotle? Professor Emerita Helen King (Classical Studies, Open University) Dr Lucy van de Wiel (Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge) Dr Zeynep Gürtin (Lecturer in Women's Health, UCL) Dr Leah Astbury (Molina Fellow, History of Medicine, The Huntington Library)

Professor Victoria Vesna (Artist, Professor, Director of the Art|Sci Centre UCLA, and North American editor of the AI and Society Journal) Victoria Vesna, presents excerpts of her work over 3 decades (20+ solo shows, 70+ group shows) followed by a Q & A and open discussion. Victoria Vesna’s experimental creative research resides between disciplines. Through her participatory installations she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behaviour and how perceptions of...

Masks, Face, Performance Identity in the Theatre of Surgery and Therapeutic Encounter Professor Femi Oyebode (University of Birmingham) Dr Jan Parker (University of Cambridge) Emma Barnard (Artist) At a time of a seemingly one-dimensional concept of 'performative identity', a psychiatrist and a medical artist will challenge the performance of self in the theatre of surgery and therapeutic encounter. Emma Barnard - exhibition ‘Primum non Nocere’:An Artist’s Perspective into the World of...

John Allen (Former Tutu aide, Communication Director of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Rabble-Rouser for Peace, 2006) in conversation with Louise Blythe (BBC). South African journalist John Allen had a unique lifelong professional and personal relationship with ’the Arch’, and was intimately involved in some of the most dramatic events during the fall of apartheid in the 1980s, before being Communications Director for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Managing...

In collaboration with the Centre for the Future of Intelligence Stephen Cave (Executive Director Leverhulme CFI) Hopes and Fears for AI: Four Dichotomies Sarah Dillon (CFI) Displaying Gender Kanta Dihal (CFI) Personhood Beth Singler (CFI) AI and Film Chair: Satinder Gill (CIPN) Hopes and Fears for AI: Four Dichotomies Rarely has a technology arrived more pre-loaded with associations than the intelligent machine. We categorise those associations into four dichotomies of hopes and...

The Odissi Ensemble in Workshop The Odissi Ensemble, an Indian classical dance troupe, to lead a practical workshop on the devotional, divine and human aspects of their dance practices. The ensemble work across dance, music and spoken word and their creations stem from a strong philosophical or humanitarian concept. Watch one of their latest performances at the Southbank Centre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa5-DZAddI0 CRASSH is not responsible for external websites Odissi is a...

Dr Ankur Barua (Hindi Studies, Cambridge) Rvd Peterson Feital (King's College London) Rvd Andrew Hammond (King's College, Cambridge) Ms Rebecca Lees (Faculty of Classics, Cambridge) Dr Ayla Lepine (History of Art, Fellow of Essex) Professor Robin Osborne (Faculty of Classics, Cambridge) Chaired by Dr Clare Foster (Writer and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow (CRASSH))

Professor Leigh Payne (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford) Professor Paloma Aguilar (Department of Political Science, UNED) Abstract What happens when state perpetrators publicly confess to human rights violations in past dictatorships? The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission considered them crucial to delivering on the promise of truth and reconciliation. But Payne's study of perpetrators' confessions within and outside such commissions challenges that...

Michel Foucault's Confessions of the Flesh and the Performative and Material Body in the Documentary Fake Orgasm Professor Ulrike Auga (Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University Berlin) Chair: Rozelle Bosch (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge)

A half-day workshop: 'Antigone's Revolt and the Performance of Protest': Staging radical disobedience, from Brecht to the 1960s and beyond. Co-organised by Freddie Rokem (founding member, Performance Philosophy Network), Annalisa Sacchi (Principal Investigator, ERC-funded INCOMMON: Art and Politics in Italy 1959-79) and Clare Foster (British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, UCL). Engagements with the Antigone across Europe and the US helped articulate a gradual revolt against the silence,...

Dr Paul Connerton (University of Cambridge) Dr Mischa Twitchin (Queen Mary University of London) Anthropologist Dr Paul Connerton and theatre researcher and practitioner Dr Mischa Twitchin will explore how politics, collective memory and performance intersect. To what extent is ‘making memory’ grounded in the theatrical? What can concepts in performance tell about the struggles over memory? Paul Connerton is the author of How Societies Remember (Cambridge University Press, 1989), How...

Rachel Stroud (Music, University of Cambridge) in conversation with John Robb (Archaeology, University of Cambridge) John Robb is Professor of European Prehistory at the University of Cambridge. He has received his PhD in anthropological archaeology from the University of Michigan and is director of the Material Culture laboratory at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Archaeological and anthropological theory, European prehistory, Prehistoric art throughout Europe, and...

Dave Beech (Valand Academy, Gothenburg, member of the art collective Freee, writer and Professor of Art) Revolting Places: Art’s Apparatus and Radical Social Transformation Chloë Alaghband-Zadeh i(Temporary University Lecturer at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge) Beech’s recent book Art and Value, published by Brill 2015, was shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize. His work has been exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial and the Liverpool Biennial as well as BAK, Utrecht,...

Dr Joanna Melvin (Chelsea College of Arts, writer, curator and senior lecturer in Fine Art theory) in conversation with Dr Luke Skrebowski (Churchill College) Jo Melvin is Reader in Archives and Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. Melvin has been investigating the interconnections between the archives of artists’, critics, museums, galleries and magazines from the 1960s to the present day since the early 90s. She recently curated the exhibition Christine Kozlov: Information...

Dr Satinder P. Gill (CMS, University of Cambridge) Michael Byrne (CMPCP, University of Cambridge) Drawing from the fields of experimental psychology and dance, Dr Satinder P. Gill (CMS, University of Cambridge) and Michael Byrne (CMPCP, University of Cambridge) will interrogate some of the ways in which the body operates as a site of interactional sense-making, meaning and memory during performance. Satinder Gill is a research affiliate of the Centre for Music and Science at the...

Victoria Miguel (Writer, Lecturer, Curator, and former assistant to the Director of the John Cage Trust) in conversation with Daniel Brine (Artistic Director and Chief Executive of The Cambridge Juction) Miguel recounts: One day, over lunch John Cage and Willem de Kooning were discussing the nature of art. De Kooning made a rectangle with his fingers and said “If I put a frame around these breadcrumbs, that isn’t art.” Cage shook his head. This talk focuses on Cage’s ideas and works and...

Sanja Perovic (French, King’s College London) Stuart Brisley (Painter, Sculptor and Performance Artist, widely regarded as a key figure in British art) Sanja Perovic in discussion with Stuart Brisley Dr Perovic will give a specific account of her current and ongoing collaboration with the time-based performance art of Stuart Brisley: 'Dead History, Live Art: Encounters with Stuart Brisley’. This presentation will introduce the French Revolution calendar (the topic of Dr. Perovic's previous...

Margaret Faultless (Cambridge University/Royal Academy of Music) in conversation with Margherita Laera (Drama and Theatre, University of Kent) Can the score or text be re-conceived as a space that invites and activates social (inter)action, rather than a 'negative' category against which performance can be measured? How might networks of potential sociality be embedded in, and performed by, scores, texts, or scripts, themselves, whilst also leaving space for the creative agency of, and...

John Naughton (CRASSH) in conversation with Sheila Hayman (BAFTA award-winning filmmaker) How might the concept of performance help us think through the implications, or itself be suggested by, a digital world? --- John Naughton, a columnist for the Observer since 1987, is author of two well-known histories of the Internet: A Brief History of the Future (2000) and From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: what you really need to know about the Internet (2012). John’s seminal work explores the...