The Spaces Between seminar series

The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency, and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies.

Following a successful Grand Challenges bid by Professor Phil Jones from IOE, Professor Ama De-Graft Aikins from the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and Dr Deborah Padfield from the Slade School of Fine Art, they have created a new seminar series starting in November 2022 which will run to October 2023.

This series will ask questions such as:

• What stops or helps agency and voice?
• How do they connect to equity?
• How do the arts and art therapies advance agency, voice, equity and care?
• What undermines or strengthens care?
• What are different practices in different countries?

The seminars will include presentations about research, art forms such as performances or sharing of art, include time to ask questions and think together. 

Schedule

21 July 2023, 4:30 – 5:45pm

• Problematizing Wellbeing: Critical Feminism and Practices of Care in the Arts Therapies - Professor Savneet Talwar, Professor Karen Wright, and Dr Toni Wright

3 August 2023, 12 - 1.15pm

• Championing Arts in Health across Continents, Cultures and Communities: The Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship as a Case Study - Kunle Adewale 

12 September 2023, 5 - 6.15pm

• A WHO Resource on Arts Practice and the Ethics of Care - Nisha Sajnani, Mauricio Salgado

Previous events

3 November 2022, 12 - 1pm

• Welcome and introduction to the seminar series - Dr Nisha Sajnani (NYU), Professor Phil Jones (IOE, UCL), Dr Deborah Padfield (Slade, UCL) and Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins (IAS, UCL)

16 November 2022, 8 - 9:15am

• Culture change in motion: Creative approaches to working with trauma  - Professor Jill Bennet, Dr Caroline Lenette and Dr Maree Higgins

19 December 2022, 11:30am - 12:45pm

• Power and the language(ing) of care - Dr Maitri Gopalakrishna and Devika Mehta Kadam

30 January 2023, 11:00am - 12:15pm

• Voiced: Inclusivity, empowerment and wellbeing for a museum community - Maral Jule Bedoyan and Richa Mehta

07 February 2023, 12:00pm - 13:15pm

• Dance/Connect: Coproduction and creativity in research with young people – Dr Katey Warran and Dr Laura Wright

16 March 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

• Co-production in practice and research: A new paradigm for arts in health & arts therapies? – Dr Donna Betts and Dr Val Huet

Details of further seminars in the series will be posted soon.