Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Royal College of Art, Battersea SW11 4AN
11:00 – 19:30 | £5/ £4 concessions
Please note: you are welcome to attend part or all of the talks throughout the day.
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Organised by Daniel C. Blight, with support from Art on the Underground and the Royal College of Art, What Should White Culture Do? brings together a number of artists, writers and scholars to discuss the workings of race and white privilege. This day long symposium will explore its theme in relation to a variety of subject areas, including contemporary art, politics, sociology and philosophy, and takes its title from the 1998 essay by Linda Martín Alcoff, What Should White People Do?
11:00
Introduction:
Kiera Blakey, Curator, Art on the Underground
Daniel C. Blight, Visiting Tutor, Critical & Historical Studies, Royal College of Art; Lecturer in Photography, University of Brighton; Co-editor, Loose Associations, The Photographers’ Gallery
11:30-13.30
Panel 1: Contemporary Art, Popular Culture, Race
Sutapa Biswas, artist and Reader, School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Dr Anthony Faramelli, mental health recovery worker, Single Homeless Project, London; visiting lecturer in Film & Screen Studies, University of Brighton.
Jade Montserrat, artist
13:00-13:30
Panel Discussion, chaired by Sunil Shah, artist and writer.
13:30-14:30
Break
14:30-16:00
Panel 2: Contemporary Art, Migration Studies, Race
Dr Nando Sigona, Senior Birmingham Fellow, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of IRiS, Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Artists and Professors of Photography, Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg, Germany
Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
16:00-16:30
Panel Discussion, chaired by Dr Ben Burbridge, Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Sussex.
16:30-17:00
Break
17:00 – 19:00
Panel 3: Critical Whiteness Studies and White Subject Formation
Dr Richard Seymour, writer and broadcaster
Dr Shirley Anne Tate, Professor of Race and Education, Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University
18:00-19:00
Keynote Lecture
Dr George Yancy, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Emory University
19:00-19:30
Panel Discussion, chaired by Daniel C. Blight
19:30
Drinks Reception
