CIDRAL conference: 'Big Ruins: The Aesthetics and Politics of Supersized Decay'
| Dates: | 14 May 2014 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Conferences |
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| 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
Travel and Contact Information
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Lecture Theatre 1.1
Kilburn Building
Manchester
