SIAH: Public Life - Professor Laura Mulvey and Professor Victor Burgin Event
- Time:
- 17:00 - 18:00
- Date:
- 26 May 2022
- Venue:
- Online
For more information regarding this event, please email Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities at SIAH@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the SIAH: Public Life series. All welcome.
Professor Laura Mulvey will be in conversation with Professor Victor Burgin talking about her public life. This event will be chaired by Professor Ryan Bishop.
SIAH: Public Life (series abstract)
Arts and Humanities have always been crucial to the idea of the 'public life': the public is valorised as the realm of collective debate and decision-making, of community and solidarity, of art and culture. Such concepts, of course, have always been contested and never more so than right now. The electronic capture of the commons, the removal of boundaries between work and home, the policing of public spaces, the onslaught of the culture wars, the hold of big data and surveillance, the spectacles of populist politics have all changed the meanings, the spaces and the limits of the public sphere.
SIAH: Public Life draws a range of leading intellectuals into conversation about what the ideal of the 'public life' can mean to Arts and Humanities researchers and disciplines in the twenty-first century.
Speaker materials
Prior to the event please take some time to browse the following materials provided by our speakers.
Prof. Victor Burgin:
Diderot, Barthes, Vertigo (1986)
Mutation, Appropriation and Style (2020)
Prof. Laura Mulvey:
Speaker information
Laura Mulvey,is Professor of Film at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of: Visual and Other Pleasures (Macmillan 1989/2009), Fetishism and Curiosity (British Film Institute 1996/2013), Citizen Kane (BFI Classics series 1992/2012), Death Twenty- four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (Reaktion Books 2006) and Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times (Reaktion Books 2019). She made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen including Riddles of the Sphinx (British Film Institute 1977; dvd 2013) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (Arts Council 1980). With artist/filmmaker Mark Lewis, she has made Disgraced Monuments (Channel 4 1994) and 23 August 2008 (2013).
Victor Burgin,is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; Emeritus Millard Chair of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London; and Professor of Visual Culture, WSA, University of Southampton.