Twelfth International Conference on The Arts in Society “Gestures That Matter” 14–16 June 2017 | The American University of Paris | Paris, France www.artsinsociety.com www.facebook.com/ArtsInSociety @artsinsociety | #ICAS17 Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society www.artsinsociety.com First published in 2017 in Champaign, Illinois, USA by Common Ground Research Networks www.cgnetworks.org © 2017 Common Ground Research Networks All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the applicable copyright legislation, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the publisher. For permissions and other inquiries, please contact [email protected]. Common Ground Research Networks may at times take pictures of plenary sessions, presentation rooms, and conference activities which may be used on Common Ground’s various social media sites or websites. 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Designed by Ebony Jackson Cover image by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope The Arts in Society Table of Contents Welcome Letter - Common Ground ............................................................................................................1 Welcome Letter - Barbara Formis ...............................................................................................................3 Welcome Letter - Oliver Feltham ................................................................................................................ 5 About Common Ground .............................................................................................................................. 7 The Arts in Society Research Network About The Arts in Society Research Network ...................................................................................11 Themes ...............................................................................................................................................12 2017 Special Focus .............................................................................................................................14 Scope and Concerns ...........................................................................................................................15 Research Network Membership ........................................................................................................16 Engage in the Research Network ......................................................................................................17 The International Advisory Board ................................................................................................... 18 Scholar ........................................................................................................................................................19 The Arts in Society Journal Collection About the Journal Collection............................................................................................................23 Collection Titles ................................................................................................................................24 Article Submission Process and Timeline ........................................................................................26 Common Ground Open .................................................................................................................... 27 International Award for Excellence .................................................................................................28 Subscriptions and Access .................................................................................................................29 The Arts in Society Book Imprint Call for Books ....................................................................................................................................33 Call for Book Reviewers ....................................................................................................................34 Recently Published Books ................................................................................................................ 35 The Arts in Society Conference About The Arts in Society Conference ............................................................................................. 47 Ways of Speaking ...............................................................................................................................51 Daily Schedule ..................................................................................................................................53 Conference Highlights ...................................................................................................................... 55 Plenary Speakers ..............................................................................................................................56 Emerging Scholars ............................................................................................................................58 Schedule of Sessions .........................................................................................................................63 List of Participants ...........................................................................................................................125 Notes .........................................................................................................................................................137 Conference Calendar ............................................................................................................................... 146 The Arts in Society artsinsociety.com Dear Arts in Society Delegates, Welcome to Paris and to the Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society. The Arts in Society Research Network—its conference, journal collection, and book imprint—was created to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. Founded in 2006, the Inaugural Arts in Society conference was held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK in 2007. The conference has since been hosted at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany in 2007; Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK in 2008; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy in 2009; Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia in 2010; Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany in 2011; Art and Design Academy, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK in 2012; Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 2013; Sapienza University of Rome, Rome Italy in 2014; Imperial College, London, London, UK in 2015; and University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA in 2016. Next year, we are honored to hold the conference in partnership with Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. Conferences can be ephemeral spaces. We talk, learn, get inspired, but these conversations fade with time. This Research Network supports a range of publishing modes in order to capture these conversations and formalize them as knowledge artifacts. We encourage you to submit your research to The Arts in Society Journal Collection. We also encourage you to submit a book proposal to the Arts in Society Book Imprint. In partnership with our Editors and Network Partners, the Arts in Society Research Network is curated by Common Ground Research Networks. Founded in 1984, Common Ground Research Networks is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media and forward thinking in their messages. Common Ground Research Networks takes some of the pivotal challenges of our time and builds research networks which cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for people, ideas, and dialogue. However, the strength of ideas does not come from finding common denominators. Rather, the power and resilience of these ideas is that they are presented and tested in a shared space where differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. These are the kinds of vigorous and sympathetic academic milieus in which the most productive deliberations about the future can be held. We strive to create places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves. I want to thank our Conference Chair Barbara Formis and the local Paris committee, especially Oliver Feltham, who have poured much time and energy into this conference. I’d also like to thank my Arts in Society colleagues, Grace Chang, Jeremy Boehme, and Kim Kendall, who have put a significant amount of work into preparing for and carrying out this conference as well. We wish you all the best for this conference, and we hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the globe. Yours sincerely,