Past events
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Jon Schubert (Basel): Authoritarian Planning: Speculation, spectral infrastructure, and extractivism in Angola
15:00 - 17:00 4 November 2024
In a moment of pervasive economic crisis, when any economic rationalities that may have justified investments in big infrastructure appear increasingly like pure fantasy, what visions of resource-dependent development are driving urbanisation? And how do such urban developments index configurations of power and capital? This paper is based on a...
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Sophie Woodward (Manchester): Imagination and Gifts: The lives and temporalities of dormant gifts
15:00 - 17:00 11 November 2024
Gifts that are hidden unwanted in a cupboard could be dismissed as a relationship that has gone wrong, or a lack of understanding of a recipient’s preferences. An implicit but key aspect of keeping (and buying) gifts is imagination: of what another person would like, or what someone would think if a gift is resold. This talk develops the idea...
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Jakkai Siributr: There’s no Place. Artist talk and launch event
18:00 - 20:00 14 November 2024
Join us for the opening launch event and artist talk by acclaimed Thai artist, Jakkai Siributr on his first UK exhibition There’s no Place . This autumn, the Whitworth presents There’s no Place a significant new exhibition by acclaimed Thai artist Jakkai Siributr. Building on the Whitworth’s long history of radical global textile exhibitions,...
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Sami Hermez (Northwestern University, Qatar) and Sireen Sawalha: My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
15:00 - 17:00 18 November 2024
In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. The book My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work...
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Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction
15:00 - 17:00 25 November 2024
In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activists with a scientific background, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting in ever greater detail the catastrophe we face, if we're not willing to do anything about it?" Starting from this provocation, this paper investigates psycho-cultural...
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