Aesthetics of Popular Culture Conference – Programme (4th-6th May 2018 Warsaw)
Aesthetics of Popular Culture Conference (4th-6th May 2018 Warsaw)
Organised by
Adam Andrzejewski, Karan August, Max Ryynänen and Mateusz Salwa
Vanue: The Warsaw University Library at Dobra 56/66 Street
Room 254
The final programme
4th May (Friday)
9.00-9.45 Registration
9.45-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.30 Keynote Address — Tomáš Kulka — What is wrong with kitsh
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.30-13.15 Carola Barbero — Why is it important to read literature?
13.15-14.00 Iris Vidmar — Of monsters and men: crime fiction allure and popular culture
14.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-15.45 Karan August — When Barbie gets tattoos
15.45-16.30 Susanne Ylonen — Freeky cuteness in Die Antwoord
16.30-17.00 Coffee
17.00-17.45 Lisa Jones — Pro-wrestling: pop culture and art
18.00 Reception
5th May (Saturday)
9.00-9.45 Artem Radeev — Cluster account for popular culture
9.45-10.30 Ashley Watkins — Gone but not forgotten
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.45 Angela Sun — Architects as public artists
11.45-12.30 Małgorzata Szyszkowska — Flash mob and its aesthetic qualities
12.30-13.15 Swantje Martach — The aesthetic potential of “pop clothing” versus “scene-clothing”
13.15-14.45 Lunch
14.45-15.30 James Hamilton — Arts&Ents
15.30-16.45 Coffee
16.45-18.15 Keynote Address — David Davies — High art/low art/no art: making sense of 'popular art’
19.00 Dinner (Restauracja Kultura at Krakowskie Przedmieście St. 21/23)
6th May (Sunday)
9.00-9.45 David Collins — What’s wrong with entertainment: Collingwood’s critique of amusement, the corruption of consciousness, and commercial 'pop culture’
9.45-10.30 Sue Spaid — “Bellissima!” Reassessing Access to Redress Mass Art (from Nirvana to Mardi Gras)
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.45 Andrea Mecacci — Aesthetics of trash
11.45-12.00 Closing