10:30–11:00 Introduction
11:00–12:30 Session 1: Playing the City
Dr. Sigrid Merx (Utrecht University) Playing the ‘As If’ Game: Theatre that intervenes in Public Life by pretending to be something else
Dr. Luke Dickens (King’s College London) Clowns, Play and the Politics of Engagement in Joan Littlewood’s Visionary Urbanism
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:00 Session 2: Play and Sensation
Dr. Emma Fraser (Lancaster University) Imagined Ruins, Technofutures, and Critical Play
Prof. Nicolas Whybrow (University of Warwick) Sensing the City: A Road Map
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:45 Session 3: Play and the Public Sphere
Dr. Emma West (University of Birmingham) Policing Play: The Arts and/as Social Control during WWII
Lucie Glasheen (Queen Mary University) Places of Play, Spaces of Change in Nineteen-Thirties East London
16:45-17:00 Break
17:00-18:15 Keynote Lecture
Prof. Robert Pfaller (Kunstuniversität Linz) From Suspended Disbelief to Deceptive Truth: The Vicissitudes of Play In Postmodernity
18:15-19:00 Drinks & Nibbles
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