Economies of Exhaustion I: The Ethics of Academic, Architectural, and Artistic Labour
Following the UCU strikes in many UK universities during December 2019, which raised pay and conditions as a pressing issue for the academic workforce, discussions of work and labour have risen up the agenda. A series of talks and conversations hosted by Jane Rendell and Peg Rawes, around the theme of ‘economies of exhaustion’, will draw on debates in critical university studies and feminism around care and precarity; as well as ecology, equity and ethics; cross-cutting with university EDI (equality, diversity and inclusivity) initiatives and current responses to the climate emergency, to explore contemporary concerns regarding work and labour.
The first conversation, chaired by Jane Rendell, through the Bartlett Ethics Commission, involves presentations from Igea Troiani, Claudia Dutson, Sophie Hope, Jenny Richards, David Roberts and others, and will focus on work and labour in art, architecture and academia.
Please join us, from 2-5pm on Tue 5 Feb, in Room 6.02, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, 22 Gordon St, London, WC1H 0QBThe Bartlett School of Architecture.
All welcome.