Monday 19 May 2008
THE SOCIAL SITUATEDNESS OF ENTERPRISE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AN ERA OF PEAK OIL AND CLIMATE CHANGE
THE SOCIAL SITUATEDNESS OF ENTERPRISE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AN ERA OF PEAK OIL AND CLIMATE CHANGE
June 5th 2008 Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool
Part of the ESRC funded seminar series
There are still places available for this seminar
The seminar looks at the social situatedness of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the context of local economic development in an era of peak oil and climate change. In the first part of the day we consider how the role of enterprise is understood and invited speakers include Rob Blackburn (Kingston), Denise Fletcher (Sheffield), Sue Baines (Manchester Metropolitan) and Andre Spicer (Warwick), who will provoke thought and discussion in this field. The previous work of speakers has been to critically consider the economic, social, cultural and political contexts of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Seminar Schedule
9.30 – 10.00 Arrival and Registration. Tea and Coffee will be available
10.00 – 10.10 Introduction and Welcome from Peter North
Part I: The concepts of enterprise and entrepreneurialism in today’s environment (Chaired by Alan Southern)
10.10 – 10.55 Robert Blackburn on how enterprise is understood in the context of the local
10.55 – 11.40 Andre Spicer on understanding entrepreneurialism through rigorous critique
11.40 – 11.55 Coffee
11.55 – 12.45 Sue Baines on how enterprise is understood through the lens of the family
12.45 – 1.30 Denise Fletcher on social constructivism and entrepreneurialism
1.30 – 2.00 Lunch
The second part of the seminar turns specifically to consider the behaviour of entrepreneurs and the context for small enterprise in the context of major environmental worries. Speakers during this part of the day include Sarah Longlands (Centre for Local Economic Strategies) on local economic strategies and the green agenda, Will Williams (Natural Northwest) on the economic benefits for enterprises from a green agenda, Erik Bichard (University of Salford) on incorporating sustainability into planning by enterprises and Simon Snowden (University of Liverpool) who looks at private enterprise oil vulnerability and auditing.
Part II: Enterprise and making things happen in an are of peak oil and climate change (Chaired by Irene Hardill)
2.00 – 3.00 The four panel members will present their ideas about the practicalities facing small enterprise in an era of peak oil and climate change and what role enterprise and entrepreneurialism has in this period.
3.00 – 4.00 Seminar debate with questions from the floor and answers from the panel
This part of the day is designed to be interactive and to engage the audience in taking forward the debate on enterprise, entrepreneurship and local economic development in an era of peak oil and climate change.
4.00 – 4.15 Afternoon Tea
4.15 – 4.30 Summary and Next Steps by Peter North
Further details on the seminar series can be found at:
www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/ESRC-funded_seminar_series.htm
To book a place contact Alan Southern at: Alan.Southern@liverpool.ac.uk or telephone +44(0)151 795 3820
A limited number of bursaries are available for research students and contract researchers.
For more information see the website at the address above or contact Alan Southern.
June 5th 2008 Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool
Part of the ESRC funded seminar series
There are still places available for this seminar
The seminar looks at the social situatedness of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the context of local economic development in an era of peak oil and climate change. In the first part of the day we consider how the role of enterprise is understood and invited speakers include Rob Blackburn (Kingston), Denise Fletcher (Sheffield), Sue Baines (Manchester Metropolitan) and Andre Spicer (Warwick), who will provoke thought and discussion in this field. The previous work of speakers has been to critically consider the economic, social, cultural and political contexts of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Seminar Schedule
9.30 – 10.00 Arrival and Registration. Tea and Coffee will be available
10.00 – 10.10 Introduction and Welcome from Peter North
Part I: The concepts of enterprise and entrepreneurialism in today’s environment (Chaired by Alan Southern)
10.10 – 10.55 Robert Blackburn on how enterprise is understood in the context of the local
10.55 – 11.40 Andre Spicer on understanding entrepreneurialism through rigorous critique
11.40 – 11.55 Coffee
11.55 – 12.45 Sue Baines on how enterprise is understood through the lens of the family
12.45 – 1.30 Denise Fletcher on social constructivism and entrepreneurialism
1.30 – 2.00 Lunch
The second part of the seminar turns specifically to consider the behaviour of entrepreneurs and the context for small enterprise in the context of major environmental worries. Speakers during this part of the day include Sarah Longlands (Centre for Local Economic Strategies) on local economic strategies and the green agenda, Will Williams (Natural Northwest) on the economic benefits for enterprises from a green agenda, Erik Bichard (University of Salford) on incorporating sustainability into planning by enterprises and Simon Snowden (University of Liverpool) who looks at private enterprise oil vulnerability and auditing.
Part II: Enterprise and making things happen in an are of peak oil and climate change (Chaired by Irene Hardill)
2.00 – 3.00 The four panel members will present their ideas about the practicalities facing small enterprise in an era of peak oil and climate change and what role enterprise and entrepreneurialism has in this period.
3.00 – 4.00 Seminar debate with questions from the floor and answers from the panel
This part of the day is designed to be interactive and to engage the audience in taking forward the debate on enterprise, entrepreneurship and local economic development in an era of peak oil and climate change.
4.00 – 4.15 Afternoon Tea
4.15 – 4.30 Summary and Next Steps by Peter North
Further details on the seminar series can be found at:
www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/ESRC-funded_seminar_series.htm
To book a place contact Alan Southern at: Alan.Southern@liverpool.ac.uk or telephone +44(0)151 795 3820
A limited number of bursaries are available for research students and contract researchers.
For more information see the website at the address above or contact Alan Southern.
Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice
Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice
An international conference to be held in London 15th-17th July, 2009
Organizers: Professor Gillian Rose and Dr. Divya P. Tolia-Kelly
This conference takes as its starting point the apparent exhaustion in much critical theory of the term 'representation' as a means of grasping the effect of the visual in contemporary times (although, in contrast, ‘representation’ remains a key driver in advertising, geopolitical policy and military practice). Conventionally, critical interpretation has concerned itself with the meaning of images by situating their connections to broader discursive formations, but for many this is now a reductive analytical schema. There are suggestions that these approaches have become formulaic; that they ignore the physical materiality and political and cultural power of visual imagery and visualities; and that this approach can reinstate the power structures it intends to critique. The aim of the conference is to consider where representation and the need for a new interpretive paradigm may coalesce/intersect.
Visuality/Materiality attends to the relationship between the visual and the material as a way of approaching both the meaning of visual and its other aspects. The image as sign, metaphor, aesthetics and text has long dominated the realm of visual theory. But the material role of visual praxis in everyday landscapes of seeing has been an emergent area of visual research; visual design, urban visual practice, visual grammars and vocabularies of domestic spaces, including the formation and structuring of social practices of living and political being, are critical to 21st century networks of living. The relationship between Visuality/ Materiality here is about social meaning and practice; where identity, power, space, and geometries of seeing are approached here through a grounded approach to material technologies, design and visual research, everyday embodied seeing, labour, ethics and utility.
This conference is aimed at providing a dialogic space where the nature and role of a visual theory can be evaluated, in light of materiality, practice, affect, performativity; and where the methodological encounter informs our intellectual critique. One strand will invite sustained engagements with the theoretical trajectories of the ‘material turn’, the 'emotional/affective turn' and the 'practical turn' away from the 'cultural turn'. Where are these turns taking us, exactly? What are we leaving behind when we turn, and does that matter? The organisers are also keen to encourage contributions based on research experience and practice into specific aspects of visuality and visual critique including:
· What is the relationship between the material and the visual?
· How do we develop new theoretical approaches to new visual practices?
· What can we learn from everyday visualities?
· How can we approach the ethical through visual practices?
· How valuable are theories of materiality, performance, embodiment in research on the visual?
We welcome participation from all disciplines and from varying research approaches. To participate in the conference please send a 200 word abstract before December 1st 2008, to: Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk
The two-day conference fee will be approximately £180 (waged) /£85 (students).
All details will be updated on the conference web site: http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality
Conference organisers: Professor Gillian Rose (Geography, Open University)
Dr Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Geography, Durham University)
Organising committee: Dr Paul Basu (Anthropology, University of Sussex)
Professor David Campbell (Geography, Durham University)
Professor Nick Couldry (Media and Communications, Goldsmith’s)
Dr Stefano Cracolici (Modern Languages, Durham University)
Dr Mike Crang (Geography, Durham University)
Professor Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts)
Dr Ruth Fazakerley (Visual artist, Adelaide)
Dr Paul Frosh (Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University)
Professor Marie Gillespie (Sociology, Open University)
Dr Agnieszka Golda (Visual Arts, Wollongong)
Professor Christopher Pinney (Anthropology, UCL)
Dr Michael Pryke (Geography, Open University)
Dr Nirmal Puwar (Sociology, Goldsmith’s)
Dr Mimi Sheller (Sociology, Swarthmore College)
Dr Marquard Smith (Art and Design, Kingston University)
Niki Sperou (Visual Artist, Adelaide)
Professor Teal Triggs (University of the Arts)
Dr. D.P. Tolia-Kelly
Rm 412, West Building
South Road, Durham,
Co. Durham
DH1 3LE
Telephone: +44(0) 191 334 1819
Fax: +44 (0) 191 334 1801
Email: divya.tolia-kelly@durham
Lived and Material Cultures Research Cluster (Convenor):
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/clusters/lmc
Arts and Humanities Research Council Award:
http://www.durham.ac.uk/roman.centre/hadrianswall
Visuality/Materiality, London, 2009:
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality
An international conference to be held in London 15th-17th July, 2009
Organizers: Professor Gillian Rose and Dr. Divya P. Tolia-Kelly
This conference takes as its starting point the apparent exhaustion in much critical theory of the term 'representation' as a means of grasping the effect of the visual in contemporary times (although, in contrast, ‘representation’ remains a key driver in advertising, geopolitical policy and military practice). Conventionally, critical interpretation has concerned itself with the meaning of images by situating their connections to broader discursive formations, but for many this is now a reductive analytical schema. There are suggestions that these approaches have become formulaic; that they ignore the physical materiality and political and cultural power of visual imagery and visualities; and that this approach can reinstate the power structures it intends to critique. The aim of the conference is to consider where representation and the need for a new interpretive paradigm may coalesce/intersect.
Visuality/Materiality attends to the relationship between the visual and the material as a way of approaching both the meaning of visual and its other aspects. The image as sign, metaphor, aesthetics and text has long dominated the realm of visual theory. But the material role of visual praxis in everyday landscapes of seeing has been an emergent area of visual research; visual design, urban visual practice, visual grammars and vocabularies of domestic spaces, including the formation and structuring of social practices of living and political being, are critical to 21st century networks of living. The relationship between Visuality/ Materiality here is about social meaning and practice; where identity, power, space, and geometries of seeing are approached here through a grounded approach to material technologies, design and visual research, everyday embodied seeing, labour, ethics and utility.
This conference is aimed at providing a dialogic space where the nature and role of a visual theory can be evaluated, in light of materiality, practice, affect, performativity; and where the methodological encounter informs our intellectual critique. One strand will invite sustained engagements with the theoretical trajectories of the ‘material turn’, the 'emotional/affective turn' and the 'practical turn' away from the 'cultural turn'. Where are these turns taking us, exactly? What are we leaving behind when we turn, and does that matter? The organisers are also keen to encourage contributions based on research experience and practice into specific aspects of visuality and visual critique including:
· What is the relationship between the material and the visual?
· How do we develop new theoretical approaches to new visual practices?
· What can we learn from everyday visualities?
· How can we approach the ethical through visual practices?
· How valuable are theories of materiality, performance, embodiment in research on the visual?
We welcome participation from all disciplines and from varying research approaches. To participate in the conference please send a 200 word abstract before December 1st 2008, to: Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk
The two-day conference fee will be approximately £180 (waged) /£85 (students).
All details will be updated on the conference web site: http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality
Conference organisers: Professor Gillian Rose (Geography, Open University)
Dr Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Geography, Durham University)
Organising committee: Dr Paul Basu (Anthropology, University of Sussex)
Professor David Campbell (Geography, Durham University)
Professor Nick Couldry (Media and Communications, Goldsmith’s)
Dr Stefano Cracolici (Modern Languages, Durham University)
Dr Mike Crang (Geography, Durham University)
Professor Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts)
Dr Ruth Fazakerley (Visual artist, Adelaide)
Dr Paul Frosh (Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University)
Professor Marie Gillespie (Sociology, Open University)
Dr Agnieszka Golda (Visual Arts, Wollongong)
Professor Christopher Pinney (Anthropology, UCL)
Dr Michael Pryke (Geography, Open University)
Dr Nirmal Puwar (Sociology, Goldsmith’s)
Dr Mimi Sheller (Sociology, Swarthmore College)
Dr Marquard Smith (Art and Design, Kingston University)
Niki Sperou (Visual Artist, Adelaide)
Professor Teal Triggs (University of the Arts)
Dr. D.P. Tolia-Kelly
Rm 412, West Building
South Road, Durham,
Co. Durham
DH1 3LE
Telephone: +44(0) 191 334 1819
Fax: +44 (0) 191 334 1801
Email: divya.tolia-kelly@durham
Lived and Material Cultures Research Cluster (Convenor):
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/clusters/lmc
Arts and Humanities Research Council Award:
http://www.durham.ac.uk/roman.centre/hadrianswall
Visuality/Materiality, London, 2009:
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality
S P U R: Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute: Annual Lecture
London South Bank University
S P U R: Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute
A N N U A L L E C T U R E
You are cordially invited to SPUR's Second Annual Lecture
"(Dis)allowing intimacy: Negotiating multiplicity in transnational families"
by
Professor Ann Phoenix (Co-Director of Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education)
Date: Wednesday 25th June 2008
Time: 6.30pm (Reception at 5.30pm)
Venue: Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University
(Keyworth Street, off Borough Road)
RSVP: Beverley Goring, goringbl@lsbu.ac.uk
Dr Beverley Goring
Senior Research Administrator
SPUR Research Institute
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
London South Bank University,
103 Borough Road
London SE1 0AA
Telephone 020 7815 5796
www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahs/spur
S P U R: Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute
A N N U A L L E C T U R E
You are cordially invited to SPUR's Second Annual Lecture
"(Dis)allowing intimacy: Negotiating multiplicity in transnational families"
by
Professor Ann Phoenix (Co-Director of Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education)
Date: Wednesday 25th June 2008
Time: 6.30pm (Reception at 5.30pm)
Venue: Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University
(Keyworth Street, off Borough Road)
RSVP: Beverley Goring, goringbl@lsbu.ac.uk
Dr Beverley Goring
Senior Research Administrator
SPUR Research Institute
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
London South Bank University,
103 Borough Road
London SE1 0AA
Telephone 020 7815 5796
www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahs/spur
BISA working group on historical sociology and Manchester Centre for International Politics
BISA working group on historical sociology and Manchester Centre for
International Politics
One day workshop: 'The historical sociology of domination and resistance'
Centre for International Politics, Manchester University Wednesday September
11th 2008
This workshop builds on long-standing work in historical sociology which
focuses on processes of domination and resistance - and it asks what an
international perspective can add to that work. Since the publication of
Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy some forty
years ago, much research in historical sociology has centred on diverse
forms of rulership and how these are challenged, successfully or otherwise,
by forms of collective action. Yet Barrington Moore was famously criticized
for failing to theorise the international side of the struggles which he
analysed. As such, this workshop aims to interrogate both past and
contemporary processes of continuity and change, with special reference to:
- ways of conceptualising and interrogating modes of domination and
hierarchy in world politics;
- the role played in challenging forms of domination by diverse forms of
resistance such as social movements, revolutionary groups and other such actors;
- how relations of domination and resistance have intersected in ways that
challenge us to develop the international side of the historical
sociological imagination.
Workshop attendance is free, but places are limited. Thanks to a recent
award from BISA, travel expenses will be provided for research students and
paper givers. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided on the day itself.
Those interested in presenting papers should send abstracts to George Lawson
(g.lawson@lse.ac.uk ) Stuart Shields (Stuart.Shields@manchester.ac.uk) and
Justin Rosenberg (j.p.rosenberg@sussex.ac.uk) by August 11th 2008.
Those who want to register for the workshop should email the three
organisers as soon as possible
International Politics
One day workshop: 'The historical sociology of domination and resistance'
Centre for International Politics, Manchester University Wednesday September
11th 2008
This workshop builds on long-standing work in historical sociology which
focuses on processes of domination and resistance - and it asks what an
international perspective can add to that work. Since the publication of
Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy some forty
years ago, much research in historical sociology has centred on diverse
forms of rulership and how these are challenged, successfully or otherwise,
by forms of collective action. Yet Barrington Moore was famously criticized
for failing to theorise the international side of the struggles which he
analysed. As such, this workshop aims to interrogate both past and
contemporary processes of continuity and change, with special reference to:
- ways of conceptualising and interrogating modes of domination and
hierarchy in world politics;
- the role played in challenging forms of domination by diverse forms of
resistance such as social movements, revolutionary groups and other such actors;
- how relations of domination and resistance have intersected in ways that
challenge us to develop the international side of the historical
sociological imagination.
Workshop attendance is free, but places are limited. Thanks to a recent
award from BISA, travel expenses will be provided for research students and
paper givers. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided on the day itself.
Those interested in presenting papers should send abstracts to George Lawson
(g.lawson@lse.ac.uk ) Stuart Shields (Stuart.Shields@manchester.ac.uk) and
Justin Rosenberg (j.p.rosenberg@sussex.ac.uk) by August 11th 2008.
Those who want to register for the workshop should email the three
organisers as soon as possible
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