10am Arrival and Registration
10.30am Convivial Café Workshop
This short workshop invites conference attendees and speakers to engage with the key frameworks, themes and approaches that emerge from this topic. Through its rotational format, the Café cultivates a participatory and collaborative dynamic which will act as a foundation for the day’s discussion. On each table, participants are asked to engage with a key question relating to the conference theme and share their own thoughts, research and practice.
- How and where do we see convivial spaces constituted and by whom?
- What is particular to London and its dynamics in the creation and sustainment convivial spaces?
- What tensions are produced by conviviality?
11.15am Panel 1. Convivial Institutions
- Eileen Chanin, Visions of an Imperial London. Earl Grey’s Scheme for an Imperial Centre
- Dongkyung Shin, Universities: Space of Postcolonial Encounters in London
12.15pm Lunch
1pm Panel 2. Bonds of Conviviality
- Laura Forster, “Café-Friendships” and Intimate Anonymity in London before the First World War
- Stephen Bentel, Convivial Neighbours?: Gentrification and Race in Late Twentieth Century London
- Rob Waters, Making friends? Bronze magazine and ‘non-political’ integration
2.30pm Coffee Break
3pm Panel 3. Cultures of Conviviality
- Anjali Roy, White, Black and Brown on the Dance Floor
- Onder Cakirtas, Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries: The Portrayal of Islam and Muslims in Early 21st Century British Theatre’
4 pm Break
4.15pm Keynote
Caroline Bressey, ‘Hardening the Colour Line: geographies of conviviality in inter-war Britain.’
Followed by Drinks Reception