Event overview
Reacting to planetary permacrisis and the need to collectively imagine new forms of worldmaking, this event analyses the role of audio-visual media in the global dream space.
From the mid-twentieth century, audio-visual media constituted a key site for creating, circulating and debating ideas about an emerging and increasingly interconnected world space. Liberation movements, civil society actors and international organisations such as the United Nations appealed to contested signifiers such as 鈥減eace鈥 and 鈥渇reedom鈥 as they pursued contradictory modernising agendas, ranging from anticolonial worldmaking to liberal-capitalist internationalism and imperial domination. Drawing on and expanding Anna Tsing鈥檚 concept, this symposium seeks to chart the audio-visual production and mediation of the 鈥済lobal dream space鈥 that emerged from this historical process.
In the present day, the sizeable archive of this contested 鈥済lobal dream space鈥 is little-known and institutionally and geographically dispersed, but it is also attracting increasing interest in the academic, archival and creative communities. In the face of planetary permacrisis and a collective urgency to imagine new forms of worldmaking, this event seeks to take stock of and analyse the audio-visual project of this global space from multiple perspectives. Through a variety of formats (papers, workshops and screening sessions), participants will place a particular emphasis on presenting diverse audio-visual materials including films, videos, filmstrips, photographs, and television and radio programmes.
The symposium is organised by David Wood (University College London/Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico) and Miguel Errazu (缅北强奸幼女) with the support of the UK Research & Innovation 鈥淗orizon Europe Guarantee鈥 programme (EP/Z001919/1 and EP/Y015088/1), Centre for Visual Anthropology of 缅北强奸幼女 and SELCS-CMII/Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.
On Thursday 4 June, the symposium will now take place at University College London, Roberts Building (Faculty of Engineering), Room 309. Enter from Malet Place.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Jun 2026 | 9:30am - 6:30pm |
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