Friday 14 December, 10.30-17.30
Colchester Campus, North Teaching Centre, room 1.03, University of Essex
We would like to welcome you to a conference at the University of Essex this December 14th, on The University and Micro-Dynamics of Institutional Life. The event will be keynoted by Jennifer Doyle (UCR), who will be sharing her new research on the place of the institution in contemporary feminist and anti-racist performance work. Jennifer Doyle is the author of books including Campus Sex, Campus Security (2015) and Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013).
Registration is free, and lunch is provided.
You can find the details below. All welcome!
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10.15 – 10.45: Registration and Coffee
10.45 – 11.00: Welcome
11.00 – 12.10: Panel 1: Historical Approaches to the University
+ The University and the Public Sphere: An interpretive framework for a history of the New Universities at Sussex & Essex
+ Historical polymaths and the obstruction to ‘indisciplinary’ research in present-day academia
+ Dorothy Sayers, in the smoking room, with the mirror: Queer Detection in Women’s Criticism of Women’s University Fiction
12.10 – 12.25: Break
12.25 – 13.30: Panel 2: The University and the Unconscious
+ Sexual Politics as Pedagogy: Ronell, Reitman and the ‘Proper Objects’ of Feminism and Queer Theory
+ A Thing about Meetings
13.30 – 14.30: Lunch
14.30 – 16.00: Panel 3: Phenomenological Approaches to the University
+ Everyday Life in the Accelerated Academy: a Rhythmanalytical Perspective
+ Who Is Sussex? Belonging and Repression in the 2013 Sussex University Occupation
+ Bureaucracy, Vulnerability, and the Mythologising of the Student Body
+ A Sensitive Rhetoric: On Harm and Consent in University Sexual Harassment Policies
16.00 – 16.15: Break
16.15 – 17.15: Keynote Presentation
+ Host Institution: Transversal Performance Work
17.15 – 17.30: Closing Address
17.30: Drinks