Announcing the Spring 2023 Soundbites and Director's Seminars, a series of public events hosted by the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute for Global Prosperity
The Soundbites and Director's Seminars series are public events hosted by the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute for Global Prosperity, and open to all. The theme for the Spring 2023 series is 'Prosperity and the Popular'.
This seminar series looks at the radical potential of ‘the popular’. We start from the view that the social and cultural relations, meanings and artefacts that hold communities together are a platform for critical ideas and strategies that can advance prosperity and inclusion. This perspective is vital at the current historical conjuncture in which multiple crises are creating the conditions for authoritarian populism to take advantage of exclusion and poverty, despite ostensibly promising to remedy the gulf between ‘the people’ and ‘elites.’
Soundbites are a platform for professionals and entrepreneurs who are leading in their field. Speakers are innovators and inspiring actors working in new and traditional sectors, outside of academia. The Soundbite gives the audience an insight into how their organisation contributes to sustainable and inclusive prosperity.
Director's Seminars areÌýan opportunity for audiences to get an in-depth theoretical perspective on sustainable and inclusive prosperity. These Seminars are given by academics who are pushing for new ways of thinking and new ways of researching society's grand challenges.
Upcoming SoundbitesÌý
12 January, 13.00-14.00:ÌýImmediate Theatre: Telling untold stories, Jo Carter (Immediate Theatre)
26 January, 13.00-14.00:ÌýPopular culture and understanding prosperity, inclusion and equity: A conversation, Angela Jansen (Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion)
9 February, 13.00-14.00:ÌýEmbedding culture in planning and sustainable urban development: The transformational power of the creative industries, Tom Campbell (Former Head of Creative Industries at the London Development Agency)ÌýTHIS EVENT IS CANCELLED AS IT COINCIDES WITH UCU STRIKE ACTION
2 March, 13.00-14.00: The making of 'Stories of Pang Jai', Jimmy Lo (Documentary filmmaker)Ìý
16 March, 13.00-14.00:ÌýTelling ‘graphic’ stories about climate change: representing lived experience from below, Gemma Sou (University of Manchester)
Upcoming Director's Seminars
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19 January, 16.30-18.00:ÌýPass the parcel: prosperity, populism and the anti-equalities agenda, Jo Littler (City, University of London)
2 February, 16.30-18.00:ÌýOverstandin: A southern methodology, Jaspal Naveel Singh (The Open University)
23 February, 16.30-18.00:ÌýRethinking traditional markets as provisioning sites in an inclusive economy: insights and contributions from the Markets4People project,ÌýSara Gonzalez (University of Leeds) and Myfanwy Taylor (University CollegeÌýLondon)ÌýTHIS EVENT IS CANCELLED AS IT COINCIDES WITH UCU STRIKE ACTION
9 March, 16.30-18.00:ÌýPost-pandemic hybrid experiments: Collaborative, creative methods for making prosperous futures,ÌýBeckie Coleman (Bristol University)
23 March, 16.30-18.00:ÌýLooking for sustança: food practices and food insecurity in Brazilian urban peripheries under COVID-19,ÌýGareth Jones, Aiko Akemura and Mara Noguera (London School of Economics)
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