Cultural Value and Everyday Life

Venue: G19 (Old Mining Building)

As part of the 'Work in Progress' Research Seminar Series, PhD students Ana Baeza and Liz Stainforth from the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage will present their project ‘Cultural Value and Everyday Life’.

The idea for this research seminar is informed by recent studies that have brought key questions of culture and value into dialogue with ‘everyday life’, by attending to the full range of scales through which the arts and culture are lived and informed. Although our research is ostensibly quite different, we share an interest in how concepts of the everyday are negotiated in the cultural heritage context. Here, we will each present a 10-15 minute paper through which these concerns are discussed. Liz addresses the temporality of heritage in the contemporary media environment, while Ana considers how 1930s design discourses of the ‘everyday’ influenced the understanding of heritage in the inter-war period.

Liz Stainforth’s thesis title is ‘Defining the Problem of Tomorrow’s Memory: Locating Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age’.

Ana Baeza Ruiz’s thesis title is ‘The Road to Renewal: Refiguring Historical and Architectural Visions at the National Gallery after WWII (1945-1967)’.

All are wellcome

Forthcoming seminars for 2015:
18 March 12.00-13.00 (Chrysi Papaioannou)