Speaking of Abstraction Extra Special People

Salon: Speaking of Abstraction
Tuesday 11 September
6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects

For the first in a series of interdisciplinary talks which complement Eastside Projects? forthcoming exhibition ?Abstract Possible: The Birmingham Beat?, Dr Angus Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Spatial Organisation at the University of Leicester and Dr Liam Connell, Lecturer in the department of English, Creative Writing and American Studies at The University of Winchester have been invited to speak about ?abstraction? in relation to their own subjects and research interests. This is the first new programme strand to be developed by the ESP Programming group.

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Angus Cameron studied for his first degree in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. After two years working as a financial journalist he then took a Masters degree in International Relations and a DPhil in International Political Economy (IPE) at the University of Sussex. His thesis, Globalization, Social Exclusion and the Discursive Localization of Poverty, combined elements of constructivist IPE with theorization of the ?social exclusion? agenda then current in UK politics. After four years as a research associate in the Geography Department at Durham University, Angus came to Leicester in 2001. After lecturing in the Geography Department for 10 years, Angus moved to the School of Management in June 2011. Since 2008 Angus has extended his academic work by acting as ?spokesperson? for Swedish performance artists goldin+senneby on their ongoing project ?Headless?.

Angus? primary research interests address the broad themes of spatiality, representation and performance. Empirically this has embraced topics of money, offshore finance, boundaries, taxation, cartography, discourses of inclusion/exclusion/exception, semiotics and the mythical figure of the Trickster. His current interests include the relationship between the contemporary state and the body and the construction of ?xenospaces? ? fictional but functional spaces of exteriority. Angus also continues to collaborate with goldin+senneby and other contemporary artists.
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Liam Connell?s research interests include, contemporary literature and globalization. Cultural representations of illegal migration and cultural depictions of the offshore in relation to finance, labour and law.

Recent publications include, ?Global Narratives: Globalisation and Literary Studies.? Critical Survey 16, no. 2 (2004), ?Business as Usual: The Image of the Corporation in the Cultures of Globalisation.? In Globalisation and Its Discontents, edited by Stan Smith, 161-80. London: D. S. Brewer, (2006), ?E-terror: Computer viruses, class and transnationalism in Transmission and One Night @ the Call Center.? Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46(3) and with Nicky Marsh (eds.) The Literature and Globalization Reader. London: Routledge, 2010.

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