Living precarious lives

Living Precarious Lives has aimed to better understand emergent precarity as a student construct. 


RISING forward

A panel debate to consider what are the practical steps that need to be taken for the UK and the EU to move forward in peace after Brexit - with UK and European politicians.


Delivered the Same Day: The Post Office and Amazon.com

Delivered the Same Day: The Post Office and Amazon.com


Investigation of the Impact of Occupant Behavior on Building Performance in the UK and China

Investigation of the Impact of Occupant Behavior on Building Performance in the UK and China


Domestics against domestication

This event is supported by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University) and the  Centre for Performance and Creative Exchange (University of Roehampton). How to uncouple the idea of ‘home’ from the realm of private life and make it an instrument to think and build public life? The starting point for this study day is the idea that the set of activities associated with organizing, maintaining and inhabiting a house constitutes a category in its own right. As much as the organizing, maintaining and inhabiting a polis, this category is not a given, but a field of struggle and imagination.


Experimental Publishing II Critique, Intervention, and Speculation

A half-day symposium with talks by Mark Amerika (UC Boulder) and Nick Thurston (University of Leeds/Information as Material) This is the second in a series of symposia hosted by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over the course of the series, we will ask questions about the role and nature of experimentation in publishing, about ways in which experimental publishing has been formulated and performed in the past, and ways in which it shapes our publishing imaginaries at present. This series aims to conceptualise and map what experimental publishing is or can be and to think through what lies behind our aims and motivations to experiment through publishing. As such, it forms the first activity within the CPC’s new Post-Publishing programme, an initiative committed to exploring iterative and processual forms of publishing and their role in reconceptualising publishing as an integral part of the research and writing process, i.e. as that which inherently shapes it.    


The mediated self

A half day seminar open to staff and students to explore the complexities of the self in our current living experience: how it is seen and transformed and narrated through the lenses of the contemporary cultures and media.


On Gesture: Approaches & Questions

The study-day draws upon the rich literature on gesture recently emerged across media and film studies, design, dance, psychoanalysis, linguistics, art, philosophy and performance studies.


Whistleblowers: Voices of Justice

Organised by Coventry University’s Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity, in co-operation with the international law firm Constantine Cannon, the not-for-profit organisation WhistleblowersUK and the community network organisation MLROs.com, this conference will discuss the important role of whistleblowers in exposing corporate criminal activities, and how to encourage the reporting of corporate criminal behaviours and to best protect the individuals involved in such reporting.


When Amartya met Paulo: Social Work, Human Capabilities and Critical Pedagogy

This presentation seeks to offer a radically different model of social work based on combining the ‘human capabilities’ approach developed by Amartya Sen with ideas from ‘critical pedagogy’ and the work of Paulo Freire.


Feminist Research, Craft Theory And Virtual Materiality

In this seminar, visiting artist and scholar Dr Lynne Heller will give a talk about her research which brings a feminist perspective, crafts theory and collage methodology to research practice exploring the area between material and virtual realities.


Struggles for Organic Sovereignties: Networking and Conventionalizing Diversity in Latvia and Costa Rica

Struggles for Organic Sovereignties: Networking and Conventionalizing Diversity in Latvia and Costa Rica.


Research in South America: Challenges and Opportunities

Research in South America: Challenges and Opportunities


Artful Research Cultures

Please join us for this interactive discussion on how the CST and CAWR are together developing transformative research approaches for responding-with diverse communities of place. These artful forms emerge within a worldview that values and helps flourish our essential interconnectedness with animate world of which we are a part.


The politics of self-organisation and the social production of space in urban community gardens

This presentation draws on fieldwork conducted in Seville in 2016-17, exploring the politics of self-organisation and self-management in urban community gardens.


Somatics Toolkit Launch Event

The Somatics Toolkit proposes physically engaged approaches to familiar research activities.


Climate change impact on farming systems in the South Atlantic – Implications for the sheep wool sector

This study focuses on measuring GHG emissions from grasslands and to report baseline data from typical farming management practices to be integrated into the whole carbon balance of their farming system.


Postdigital Intimacies Symposium

Postdigital Intimacies addresses important issues in how we make sense of our minds, bodies, relationships and emotional worlds.


Water security and climate change in sub-Saharan Africa

High levels of rainfall variability are magnified in the response of river discharges and lake levels creating major challenges to ongoing activities to achieve water security in sub-Saharan Africa.