Rubbish Symposium Line Up

RUBBISH
SYMPOSIUM – Saturday 30 July, 9-5 PM, B20 Malet
Street, Birkbeck, University of London

9am – Assemble etc.

9:30 - Keynote – Professor Steven Connor (Birkbeck)

10:00 Panel I - Rubbish Ideas: Chair Zara Dinnen (Birkbeck)

1. Daniel Rourke – On Kipple and Things

2. Henderson Downing – “No Shit,Sherlock”: Psychogeography and Other Rubbish Theories

3. Jon Tee – 'Sound, Noise... Rubbish? Ballard's "The Sound-Sweep", Musique Concrète and the "Music for Magnetic Tape Project"'

11:15 Coffee (own arrangements)

11:45 Panel II - Rubbish Things: Chair Matt Wraith (London Consortium)

4. Natalie Joelle – The Back Arts of Things: Gleaning and Picking in Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I and Lucy Walker’s Waste Land

5. Lisa Mullen – Undead Toys: When
Objects Refuse to be Rubbish

6. Will Viney – ‘Unproductive and Uninhabited’: Wastes of Place and Time

13:00 Lunch (own arrangements)

14: 00 Panel III – Rubbish Places: Chair Dr. Brian Dillon (Kent)

7. Terri Mullholland and Siân Thomas –The Things that Remain: The Abandoned House as Archive of Poetic Memory

8. Tony Venezia – “There is no real magic” – George A. Romero’s Martin as Rustbowl Fantasy

9. James Wilkes – Follies, Ruins, and Fossils: Paul Nash’s Swanage Photographs

10. Rosemary Shirley – Keeping Britain Tidy: Litter and Anxiety

15:30 Coffee (own arrangements)

16:00 Response and plenary led Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)

16:30 Wine reception

(Abstracts attached below)