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Your say

Whether you could make it to the 2015 conference or not, send us a postcard expressing your say on the Cultural Literacy project, its present and future.

From Literature to Cultural Literacy

The countdown to the start of the conference this afternoon started!

To get in the mood you might want to read this recently published article by one of the member of the Steering Committee of Cultural Literacy in Europe 2015 conference and driving force of the project, Professor Naomi Segal. She contextualises the project and its relevance for the future of the social and cultural value of our research.

Twitter tag and livestream link

For those who cannot make it to the conference this time, to follow the event on Twitter use the hashtag #cleurope2015.

In addition, we are pleased to announce that the following sessions of the conference will be livestreamed:

Thursday 16 April 5.10–6.10pm	Keynote Alexandre Quintanilha – Inclusive knowledge… how?
Friday 17 April 9.30-11am	Policy-makers/stakeholder panel Room: MAL B36 Maureen Freely, Warwick University (UK) Philippe Keraudren, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission Svend Erik Larsen, Aarhus University (Denmark), Academia Europaea Wolfgang Mackiewicz, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) Rosella Magli, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Angela Schindler-Daniels, German Aerospace Center (DLR), the National Contact Point for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (Germany), NET4SOCIETY network Milena Žic Fuchs, University of Zagreb (Croatia), ALLEA
Friday 17 April 1.30-3.30pm	Project presentations Room: MAL B36 Rebecca Braun – How might changing the way we research literary authors open up academic debate to a wider community of users Madeleine Campbell – The Jetties project Robert Crawshaw – Underground Poetry and ‘Poems on the Underground’ Idalina Conde – European iconographies for cultural literacy Gabriel García-Ochoa & Nick Monk – Integrating Cultural Literacy in Transdisciplinary Contexts: an educational experiment Octavian Saiu – Cultural literacy, local community and the global public sphere: the case of Sibiu International Theatre Festival Gerardine Meaney – Approaching the baggy monster: cultural literacy concepts, network analysis and nineteenth-century novels Schamma Schahadat – TransStar Europa
Friday 17 April 6.00-7.00pm	Keynote Michael Cronin – Eating Our Words: Books, burgers and the biosphere
Saturday 18 April 11am–12 noon	Keynote Aleida Assmann – Resonance and Impact: towards a theory of the emotions in cultural memory
Saturday 18 April 3:00-4pm	Keynote Lars Elleström – A Medium-Centred Model of Communication in the Context of Cultural Literacy

Do or DIY Information As Material installation now open

The low-fi Information As Material installation has just opened at the Peltz Gallery, Brikbeck University.

There — and for now only there — you can pick up a free Xerox chapbook of the expanded second edition of Do or DIY. When they’re gone they’re gone. Here’s a taster:

“In the same year that James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Elliot’s The Waste Land were published, Carlos Díaz Loyola self-published his book of poems Los Gemidos. Loyola, a Chilean writing under the nom de plume Pablo de Rokha, only managed to sell a few copies. Indeed, both the public and the critics were so indifferent that the author sold the bulk of the edition by weight to the slaughterhouse where it was used to wrap meat. Today, accordingly, it is almost impossible to find a first edition of Los Gemidos, which is now considered to be one of the fundamental works of the Latin American avant-garde movement.”

Another recent IAM freebie can be downloaded from the Eclipse Archive. Nothing: A User’s Manual is a 48pp PDF featuring a long introductory essay and a preliminary bibliography that both try to map ideas of nothing and nothing-ness as they relate to late-modern and contemporary art practice. In no small part we want to share it as a teaching aid so please feel free to use it, misuse it and extend it. The download link is here.

Please pass on info about both projects.

As ever, recent books etc are listed on informationasmaterial.org.

With very best wishes,

Nick Thurston