Aesthetics of Kinship and Community Graduate Symposium
Birkbeck, University of London
Friday 30 November 2018 – afternoon
Call for Papers
Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (BRAKC) is a research centre based in the School of Arts. We study the artistic representation of human belonging, of the human bond, in literature, film, photography, paintings, and other art forms. How is this bond presented across time and cultures, how is it analysed, deconstructed, reinvented?
We are inviting postgraduate students to present their current research within the field of aesthetics of kinship and community for a roundtable event at Birkbeck on 30 November 2018 in the afternoon. The idea is to bring together the wealth of research being accomplished on the artistic representation of the familial, the social, the political, its criticism and re-conceptions. Papers can be on any period in history and all cultures are relevant. Issues upon which papers are welcome include but are not limited to:
- Racism
- Sexual belonging
- Familial configurations
- Nationalisms and Brexit
- Diasporas
- Utopia(s)
- Community and commonality
- Anticapitalism
- Revolutions
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Dr Nathalie Wourm, Director of BRAKC, by 30 October 2018. Selected papers will be announced shortly after that.
Email: n.wourm@bbk.ac.uk
Website: http://www.brakc.bbk.ac.uk/