Programme
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish Executive Arts & Humanities Awards
Investigating the Archive project
Migration, Media, Archive
Friday 6 June 2008, 10.30am–4.30pm
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh
| 10.30am | Welcome and Introduction
Roberta McGrath (Napier University) |
| 10.35–11.30am | Steve Edwards (Open University) 'Crowds and commons: figuring photography from above and below' |
| 11.30am–12.30pm | Áine O’Brien (Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology) 'Living archives of migration: collaborative politics and coalitional research' |
| Lunch: 12.30–2pm | |
| 2.00–3.00pm | Angela Dimitrakaki (University of Edinburgh) ‘Life after identity? Art and politics in the age of global capital’ |
| 3.00 – 4.00pm | Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London) ‘A fictional re-imagining of the Trinidad archive: amendments (2007)’ |
| 4.00-4.30pm | Discussion Chair: Alex Law (University of Abertay) |
The symposium is organised by Napier University and the National Galleries of Scotland as part of the Investigating the Archive project in collaboration with the University of Dundee and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. For further details see www.investigatingthearchive.org. Thanks to: Richard Hamilton (NGS audio visual technician), Gail Low (University of Dundee) and Helen Monaghan (NGS Education) | |