Past event
Plastic Time: research workshop A series of research and practice-based workshops exploring the temporalities of plastic - £50
On Monday 12 June, there will be an interactive plastics workshop facilitated by artist academics. Find out more…
This research workshop will explore the temporalities of plastic.
Programme:
9.30 Coffee & Welcome (Patrick O'Hare and Richard Irvine)
10am Panel 1: On Wine Dark Plastic Seas
- Antonia Thomas (University of the Highlands and Islands): Plastic islands? The past, present and future of people and plastics in Orkney, Scotland
- Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko (University of Copenhagen): Commensality and Plastics Amidst a Deluge of the Living: The Materiality and Rhythms of Connection on Christmas Island
- Inna Yaneva-Toraman (Heriot-Watt University), Phan Phuong Thanh (Vietnam Institute of Fisheries), and Giang Van Trong (Institute for Vietnamese Studies): Not my plastics: time, movement, and connectedness through marine plastics
- Discussant: Richard Irvine (University of St Andrews)
12 noon: Lunch
1pm Panel 2: Unplastifying Packaging
- Lea Breitsprecher (University of Freiburg): Beyond Plastic – Contested Temporalities in the Process of Infrastructuring New Packaging Solutions
- Declan Murray (University of Durham) and Stephano Ayo (Dar es Salaam University College of Education): Persistence and resistance: Plastic bags through time in Dar es Salaam
- Louise Rondel (Goldsmiths): Plastic landscapes: The never-ending journey of packaging to and through beauty salons
- Discussants: Catherine Alexander (University of Durham)
3pm Coffee
3.30pm Panel 3: Circular and Cycling Plastics
- Isabel Bredenbröker (Humboldt University Berlin): Plastics and Death in Ghana – Considering Specific Perspectives on Materials
- Felix Ringel & Henry Chilobwe (University of Durham/ University of Malawi): A Season for Plastics: Harvesting and Baking High Density Polyethylene in Blantyre Malawi
- Kathrin Eitel (University of Zurich): Doing Plastic Politics under the Blue Sky of Waste Fantasies
- Discussant: Patrick O'Hare (University of St Andrews)
5.30pm Refreshments
6pm Keynote speech: Dr Trisia Farrelly (Massey University): How are global plastics treaty negotiations responding to the temporalities of plastic pollution (Online)
7.30pm Dinner (Mitchells)