[csaa-forum] Creative biographies and cultural labour symposium

[Melissa Gregg]

Sorry James?! 
Should I be reading that as a ³puh-lease²?
I would love to hear more...
Melissa

On 17/2/09 3:07 PM, "James Donald" <j.donald at unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> Please
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> Sent: Tue Feb 17 14:59:17 2009
> Subject: [csaa-forum] Creative biographies and cultural labour symposium
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> Cultural work and creative biographies
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> A one day symposium
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> Wednesday April 1st 2009
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> The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
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> Michael Young Rooms: 1, 2, 3 & 4
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> Organisers
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> Rosalind Gill, Centre for Citizenship Identities and Governance (CCIG), The
> Open University
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> Mark Banks, Department of Sociology/CRESC, The Open University
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> Stephanie Taylor, Department of Psychology/CCIG, The Open University
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> The last decade has seen a huge growth of interest in cultural labour,
> coinciding with increased attention to the media and other fields as 'creative
> industries', and underscored by technological changes that have brought into
> being new occupations such as web design, digital animation, electronic arts,
> etc. Suddenly there seems to be an acknowledgement that media and culture
> involve work! Following on from our successful workshop in 2008 on "The
> creative industries: 10 years after", in this symposium we bring together a
> series of invited speakers to explore the nature of cultural work today.
> Research in this field points both to the passionate attachments cultural
> workers have to their work, and to the costs this involves in terms of
> precariousness, poor pay and 'bulimic' stop-go patterns of working.  How do
> workers in fields as diverse as fashion, television, film, web design or fine
> art negotiate and manage working lives that are characterised by insecurity,
> informality, and in which Œyou are only as good as your last job¹?
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> A series of invited key speakers will address the following themes:
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> *Are cultural workers the poster boys and girls for work in the 'new economy'?
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> *How different is 'cultural labour' from other forms of work? Are we all
> cultural workers now?
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> *Is the notion of 'creative industries' useful?
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> *How do Romantic conceptions of artists and artistic work hold up in an age of
> individualisation and insecurity?
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> *Is the notion of 'creative biographies' useful for understanding cultural
> workers lives as lived and experienced in conditions of precarity?
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> *To what extent are creative biographies inflected by inequalities relating to
> class, gender, 'race', age and disability?
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> Speakers include: Lisa Adkins (Goldsmiths), Melissa Gregg (Sydney) Helen
> Kennedy (Leeds),Kate Oakley (City University and independent consultant),
> Stephanie Taylor (Open) and Andreas Wittel (Nottingham)
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> Attendance is free for Open University and CRESC students and staff, with a
> nominal charge of £25 for external attendees (coffee and lunch provided).
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> Please contact SocSci-CCIG-Events at open.ac.uk if you wish to register for this
> event. 
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