Event overview
Primitivism Now is a one-day workshop featuring speakers from a range of disciplines, from literary theory to philosophy, politics to art history. They will consider whether it is possible to think anew about primitivism, a field whose theoretical underpinnings have largely lain dormant since the poststructural and postcolonial critiques of primitivism in the 1980s and 90s.
They will reflect on primitivism in the light of recent developments in theory (such as those connected with ecological critique, the adoption of global frames of analysis, and decolonial theory) and historiography (such as the turn to ‘deep’ history and revisionist approaches to the early history of agriculture), as well developments connected with uncovering new archives and revisiting the work of forgotten or less-studied figures.
The workshop will also question whether there are modes of primitivism aside from those developed in reference to major languages and culture at the centres of the European empires? This includes thinking about articulations of primitivism from the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa as well as within European Jewry. Does ‘primitivism’ offer a critical vocabulary and conceptual framework to adequately describe the full range of literary and visual works we may wish to place under its rubric?
Speakers: Miri Davidson (Queen Mary) / Ben Etherington (Western Sydney) / Nicola Gess (Basel) / Jill Lloyd (Independent curator) / Erhard Schüttpelz (Siegen) / Samuel Spinner (Johns Hopkins) / Maria Stavrinaki (Paris 1) / Carole Sweeney (Goldsmiths) / Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2019 | 10:30am - 5:30pm |
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