Hello SRG Friends. We want to keep you in touch with some events outside of Aber which may be of interest! There is an upcoming seminar, Urban Space: Exposing the Politics of Social Control at Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown on the 4th of December. This seminar will bring together academics and campaigners to explore and discuss the tensions, struggles and resilience in the urban landscape. --- ORIEL DAVIES GALLERY, NEWTOWN THURSDAY, 4TH DECEMBER 2014, 1-5.30PM TICKETS Tickets £5, Concessions FREE* (Full Time Students, Unemployed, Pensioners, ODG Friends) *Ticket includes refreshments* Speakers: Hanna Baumann, Nicholas De Genova and Javier Ruiz Diaz. Chair: Bella Kerr How do societys urban and technological infrastructures exercise social, physical and psychological control? This seminar will bring together academics and campaigners to explore and discuss the tensions, struggles and resilience in the urban landscape. Urban Space: Exposing the Politics of Social Control is the third and final seminar in the Dialogue series which has focused on a range of themes explored by the Artes Mundi 6 shortlisted artists. Hanna Baumann is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research at the University of Cambridge whose research focuses on mobility in and around East Jerusalem. urbanconflicts.arct.cam.ac.uk/people/hanna-baumann Dr Nicholas De Genova is Reader in Urban Geography and Director of the Cities Research Group at King’s College London. He is currently writing a new book on The Migrant Metropolis, and editing a new book on The Borders of “Europe.” kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/people/academic/de-genova/index.aspx Javier Ruiz Diaz leads on policy at the UK based Open Rights Group. His recent work has covered openness and privacy, state surveillance and copyright reforms. Previously he worked as campaigner and organiser, and spent several years building citizen media platforms and supporting the digital activities of social movements in Europe and Latin America. openrightsgroup.org Past Dialogues Conflict through the Eye of the Lens, MOSTYN ac Feminist Perspective Art Practice, University of Wales, Trinity St David Swansea Campus. Dialogues on Conflict series is funded by Arts Council Wales, Audience development grant in partnership with University of Wales, Trinity St David Swansea Campus, Oriel Davies Gallery, MOSTYN.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:40:37 +0000
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