Creative Interactions and Contemporary Challenges

Global Challenges and Social Justice 1

• Elena Boukouvala, The Open University - Creating Stages with Refugees and Local Young People in Lesvos through Creative and Digital Methods
• Craig Walker and Tominke Olaniyan, The Open University - Confronting the Humanitarian (Aid and Research) Industrial Complex Through The Lens Of A PhotoVoice Project With Refugees in Uganda

Global Challenges and Social Justice 2

Participatory Arts-based Research with Migrants

• Umut Erel, The Open University
• Tracey Reynolds, University of Greenwich
• Maggie O’Neill, University College Cork

Creative Interactions 1 – Creativity and Resistance

Creative Resistance in Authoritarian China

• Ling Tang, The Open University
• Taoyuan Luo, VaChina/University of Leeds
• Maggie O’Neill, University College Cork

Existential Dis/Connections Climate Café/Death Café

• Catherine Pestano, The Open University
• Jane McCarthy, The Open University

Work that Reconnects/Sing for Earth

• Catherine Pestano, The Open University

Creative Interactions 2 – Creative Interactions in PhD Research

Lightning talks:

• Gwyneth Jones - Spark: A creative and critical approach to the role of electricity in the lives of Fanny Imlay and her half-sister Mary Shelley
• Minoya Patkunam – Arts and Silences: Exploring the ethics of working with silenced stories and arts elicitation
• Sarah Bower – Title TBC

Papers:

• Elizabeth Chappell – On Not Being Able to Speak: Writing a Play based on my Cross-cultural Research for my PhD
• Tom Barrett - Intersex and transgender narratives in Ovid: A Creative Work In Progress

Creative Interactions 3 – Contemporary Challenges

Participatory Arts-based Research with Migrants

• Christine Plastow, Marcus Badger, Theatre of the Gentle Furies - Mythic Storytelling and the Changing Environment
• Paul-Francois Tremlett - Democracy, Disinformation and Religion
• Nicola Watson and Emma Sweeney - Coastlines: or, creative ways of reading/writing the beach with local communities

Classical Reception and Creative Pedagogy 1

This pair of panels addresses the role of creativity in classical reception studies, with a particular focus on the pedagogy of reception. Topics for consideration include: the facilitation of effective reflection on creativity; incorporating the voices of practitioners; and the pedagogic potential of creative practice itself, for example in non-traditional assessment forms.

Refreshments

This pair of panels addresses the role of creativity in classical reception studies, with a particular focus on the pedagogy of reception. Topics for consideration include: the facilitation of effective reflection on creativity; incorporating the voices of practitioners; and the pedagogic potential of creative practice itself, for example in non-traditional assessment forms.

Classical Reception and Creative Pedagogy 2

Optional dinner at a local restaurant

Open Ecologies: Contacting nature through ekphrasis 1 (indoor session)

This panel and the accompanying workshop have been brought together by Open Ecologies, a transdisciplinary research group that spans the arts, humanities, practice-based disciplines, social and natural sciences at The Open University to provide an open and experimental space to examine environmental change and present-day ecological thinking in historical perspective and in collaboration with practice-based research.

• Lindsay Polly Crisp, The Open University
• Patrick Wright, The Open University
• Rowan St Clair, Psychotherapist and Ecotherapist

Open Ecologies: Contacting nature through ekphrasis 2 (outdoor session)

• Patrick Wright, The Open University
• Rowan St Clair, Psychotherapist and Ecotherapist

Creative Interactions 4: Religious Toleration and Peace (RETOPEA)

• John Wolffe, The Open University
• John Maiden, The Open University
• Stefanie Sinclair, The Open University
• Katelin Teller, The Open University

Refreshments

Whole group discussion and creative reflection

Closing remarks

Optional excursion to Warp & Weft ballet at Marylebone Theatre