Program

Sensing Style: Today’s global subcultures

Online Symposium, December 11, 2020 from 8:30 to 17:00 CET.

Online through Kaltura Live Room / West Den Haag, Lange Voorhout 102, The Hague

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8:30 - 9:00: Welcome with (virtual) coffee


Session 1

9:00 - 9:20: Keynote: Studying style and subculture: Towards a shared and global anthropological, art historical and semiotic perspective. Dr. Arthur Crucq. Leiden University.

9:20 - 9:40: Anime’s Multiple Globalities: From Stylistics to Transnationality. Dr. Stevie Suan. Hosei University, Tokio, Japan.

9:40 - 10:00: I’m the voice of the streets’: Hyperlocal performances of style in Bombay Hip Hop. Elloit Cardozo. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), India.

10:00 - 10:30: Q&A, Discussion with speakers.

10:30 - 11:00: Break


Session 2

11:00 - 11:20: Keynote: Subcultural playgrounds: The ludic production of alternative space-times. Prof. dr. Sybille Lammes. Leiden University

11:20 - 11:40: Subcultures as active participants in the transition in Bulgaria. Dr. Alexander Karakachnanov; Prof. Dr. Georgeta Nazarska; Dr. Nina Debruyne. University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria.

11:40 - 12:00: Protest, Hope, and a Desire For Distinction: Exploring the Ravidassia Subculture in Punjab. Sarvpriya Raj. School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

12:00 - 12:30: Q&A, Discussion with speakers.

12:30 - 13:30: Break


Session 3

13:30 - 13:50: Keynote, Guest designer: Cristha Fuentes, footwear designer from Guatemala.

13:50 - 14:10: Eleanor Antin: Performing Imaginary Life. Dr. Jennifer Vanderpool. Independent researcher and artist, Liverpool, UK.

14:10 - 14:30: Viral architecture: understanding collective tacit knowledge in an online subculture. Hamish Lonergan. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

14:30 - 14:50: Style and Simulacrum: Objects and Subcultural Group Membership in the Performative Photography of Nikki Lee. Oleg Mindiak. Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA.

14:50 - 15:20: Q&A, Discussion with speakers.

15:20 - 16:00: Break


Closing discussion

16:00 - 17:00: Q&A, Dr. Arthur Crucq and speakers.