PhD Seminar Series

The Seminar at Winchester School of Art is open to all Postgraduate Researchers and staff to collectively explore research interests within the wider critical and historical context of intellectual debates and scholarship. For reflections on some past seminar sessions see: Seminar Articles.

SCHEDULE

Seminar IX: Shared Discourse (Autumn 2017)
The seminar series over this academic year will centre around a series of lectures/seminars on key critical debates, under the title of Shared Discourse. The aim is to explore underlying debates, perspectives and paradigms, which have had impact across a wide range of areas and disciplines. Additional events include, WSA Staff Seminars, as well as various events organised through the Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research Group, and the Critical Practices Research Group.

Wednesday 11 October
Shared Discourse: Postmodernism
PhD study Room, 2pm-3.30pm
Sunil Manghani and Ryan Bishop will present on the theme of the postmodern.

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite, 4-6pm
Sunil Manghani: Critical Practice – An Open Forum

Wednesday 25 October
Shared Discourse: Semiotics
PhD study Room, 2pm-3.30pm
Victor Burgin will offer an introduction to semiotics.

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite, 4-6pm
Jussi Parikka, Jane Birkin and Mihaela Brebenel: Media archaeology in an Art School, or, what does the AMT-research group do?

Wednesday 8 November
WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite, 4-6pm
Jo Turney: Domesticating Desire: Looking for Good Sex and Furniture in 1970s Britain.

Wednesday 22 November
WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite, 4-6pm
Daniel Ashton: Arts funding: Three-legged stools and gray application forms

Wednesday 6 December
Shared Discourse: Humanism and Zygmunt Bauman
PhD study Room, 2pm-3.30pm
John Armitage will offer an introduction to Zygmunt Bauman as a means to consider humanism.

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite, 4-6pm
Daniel Cid: Zero Flat: a new typology of flat for chronic homeless people who wish to remain on the streets of Barcelona