Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 10:00 to Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 16:00
Location
Foundling Museum, London WC1N 1AZ (near Kings Cross)
About the event
The conference will be held in person at the Foundling Museum, near Kings Cross in London, on Thursday 20th – Saturday 22nd June. There will be a hybrid option for attendees, though presenters should be present in person if at all possible as presenting remotely is likely to be challenging in the room.
Welcome and introduction to Creative Interactions and other participating groups
10:30-12:00
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
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-3:00
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
3:00-3:30
Refreshments
3:30-5:00
Creative Interactions 1 – Creativity and Resistance
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
11:15-11:30
Refreshments
10:30-12:00
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
1:15-2:00
Lunch
2:00-3:30
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.
3:30-4:00
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.
4:00-5:00
Classical Reception and Creative Pedagogy 2
From 5:00
Optional dinner at a local restaurant
9:00-9:30
Refreshments
9:30-11:00
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
11:00-11:15
Refreshments
11:15-1:15
Open Ecologies: Contacting nature through ekphrasis 2 (outdoor session)
Patrick Wright, The Open University
Rowan St Clair, Psychotherapist and Ecotherapist
1:15-2:15
Lunch
2:15-3:15
Creative Interactions 4: Religious Toleration and Peace (RETOPEA)