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CIDRAL conference: 'Big Ruins: The Aesthetics and Politics of Supersized Decay'

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Dates:14 May 2014
Times:10:00 - 18:00
What is it:Conferences
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
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Speakers and topics will include:

Tim Edensor (Keynote): Ruins are everywhere Luke Bennett: The ruin of ruins Michael Crang: The aesthetic taming of toxicity Anca Pusca: Postcommunist ruins Mark Sanderson: Derelict utopias Matthew Philpotts: Rocket-fuelled ruin Emma Fraser: Reading the ruins of Detroit Clare O'Dowd: Gregor Schneider and the ghost towns Paul Dobraszczyk: Ruin gazing in Varosha Camilla Røstvik: The ruins of CERN Carl Lavery & Lee Hassall: Return to Battleship Island William Viney: Futures in ruin

Tickets for the conference can be booked on Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-ruins-the-aesthetics-and-politics-of-supersized-decay-tickets-10733583437?aff=eorg

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