The conference ‘Sites of Cultural Agency: Creative Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities’, held at and in collaboration with the British School at Rome (BSR) examines the intimate link between material sites and creative knowledge production, with specific attention to the museum and the classroom. We will explore how spatial configurations produce meaning, and how critical, creative practice can inform and transform our understanding of space. Museum curators, visual artists, actors and scholars from the creative and applied humanities will share perspectives on the history and practice of display, interpretation, and object-based learning. We are particularly interested in exploring the role of interdisciplinary and interartistic practices in the museum and classroom space.
The conference is linked to the AHRC funded project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia, and two themes in the BSR research strategy: Heritage Management and Sustainability, and History, Place and Imagination. It is jointly supported by the UCL Cities partnerships Programme in Rome.
Organisation: Florian Mussgnug (UCL) and Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway)
Conference website: https://multidisciplinaryrome.org/2019/10/14/sites-of-cultural-agency/
Conference programme
PANEL ONE: EXPERIENCES
Chair: Florian Mussgnug (University College London)
| 9:00-9:30 |
Registration and Welcome |
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| 9:30-10:00 | Derek Duncan (St Andrews University) | ‘Leonardo’: the impact of creative practice and co-production |
| 10:00-10:30 | Colin Sterling (University College London) | Spaces of Experience: Curatorial Experiments Beyond the Immersive Economy |
| 10:30-11:00 | Carmen Belmonte (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute) and Elisabetta Scirocco (Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome) | Art History in the Post-Catastrophic City: A Transdisciplinary Laboratory |
| 11.00-11.30 | Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway University London) | Tate Exchange: Creative Practice and Cross-Curricular Collaboration |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Coffee break |
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PANEL TWO: MOBILITIES
Chair: Harriet O’Neill (British School at Rome and Royal Holloway University London)
| 12.00-12:30 | Elettra Carbone (University College London) | Scandinavian Fragments: Developing teaching and research projects using materials from UCL Special Collections |
| 12:30-13:00 | Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (University College London) | West African performers and the art of navigating a world of interrupted mobilities |
| 13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
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PANEL THREE: ARCHIVES
Chair: Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway University of London )
| 14.30-15.00 | Antonella Poce (Roma Tre University) | Developing users’ soft skills in higher education through university painting collections |
| 15.00-15:45 | Simona Corso (Roma Tre) in conversation with Emiliano Russo (theatre director) and Alessandra Patrizi (Chiostro del Bramante, Rome) | Narrating and Performing the Museum |
| 15.45-16.00 |
Coffee break |
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| 16.00-16.30 | Maria Bremer (Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome) | Exhibiting As Historiography |
| 16.30-17.150 | Jilke Golbach (UCL) in conversation with Carolyn White (University of Nevada, Reno) and Steve Seidenberg (photographer) | Making MAAM Matter: photography, archaeology and the politics of marginalisation in the case of the Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz (Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere of Metropolis) |
| 17.15-17.45 |
Roundtable and conclusions |
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| 17:45-18.30 |
Drinks Reception |
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