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INSIGHTS Public Lecture: New voices on arts, humanities and social sciences
Date/Time: Tuesday 22 October 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
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All our events remain free and open to all, but pre-booking is required. Bookings for this lecture will open at 10.00am on 15 October. |
On Tuesday 22 October three early-career researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University will deliver talks describing their cutting-edge research.
Following a public vote, the winners of the public lectures competition are:
Winners:
Curating Welcome: from Theory to Practice by Sophie Ellis
School of Modern Languages
In the wake of far-right riots in the UK, the need for hospitality, or welcome, could not be more urgent. How, then, can art facilitate welcome? In this lecture, I will reflect on how I have used my research on hospitality and French visual culture to co-curate We all come from somewhere, an upcoming exhibition about welcome at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Touching upon theories of hospitality, the practicalities of organising an exhibition and the importance of collaborating with displaced communities, I will highlight the opportunities and challenges of doing engagement work in a certified Art Gallery of Sanctuary.
So when do we get to be post-race? by Heather Proctor
School of Arts and Cultures
Despite 21st century proclamations of being beyond race and/or colourblind, 'race' is still alive and kicking. Recent years have seen us all tasked with learning how we fit into these relations of power, and the growing mixed-race population in the UK never gave us the easy route out some had (naively) hoped for. This talk explores the obstacles to a post-racial society, the ways race is reproduced through popular culture, and the way ‘mixed-race’ complexifies, rather than simplifies, how we can envision the future of race. Underscoring this is one crucial question: why are we so scared of confronting ‘race’?
Less Magic, More Tragic: The Untold Truth of Witch Hunts by Zoe Waters
School X: Philosophy
Why do we get the witch hunts so wrong? They are treated differently from any other atrocity, insofar as the stereotype used to justify mass murder has become a pop culture icon. The tragic truth is that these so-called witches were not practitioners of 'witchcraft' nor mere victims of religious hysteria, but everyday women targeted for economic and political gain. Discover how our modern fascination with this misunderstood past trivialises the brutal reality of a global massacre, perpetuates a distorted and de-politicised history, fails to honour the victims of femicide, and potentially inhibits meaningful political action towards women’s liberation today.
