All sessions take place in the Clothworkers’ Building North (see venue/travel for more information). Keynote lectures and the plenary panel take place in the main lecture theatre, G.12. Registration will be in room 1.17 – follow the signs!
A full version of our conference programme is available to download as a PDF: PDF of conference programme.
THURSDAY 7TH JULY
10.00 – 11.00: Registration & refreshments
[10.30: Screening of Performers on The Edge, produced by Philip Schlesinger & Charlotte Waedle, in The Cinema (2.31)]
11.00: Welcome and Introduction
11.15 – 12pm : Keynote: ‘Bringing ethics back in: cultural production as a practice’, Russell Keat (chair: Mark Banks)
12-1pm: Lunch
[12.30: Screening of Performers on The Edge, produced by Philip Schlesinger & Charlotte Waedle, in The Cinema (2.31)]
| Thurs 1-2.45pm | Theme | Speakers | Topic |
| Panel 1 ROOM 2.31 |
Questioning Creative Work | Jason Toynbee | Uberwork? Why creative labour is no better than work in general |
| Jeremy Valentine | Ought we to sympathise with people employed in the production, distribution and exchange of culture? | ||
| Mike Wayne | The normative basis of creative labour in Kant and Marx | ||
| James Hay | Too good to fail: managing financial crisis through the moral economy of Realty TV | ||
| Panel 2 ROOM 1.18 |
Television and Public Service Values | Anna Zoellner | The pressure of being ‘popular’: Constraints and concerns in documentary development |
| James Bennett | Public Service as Moral Economy: The independent production sector and public service broadcasting 1 | ||
| Andrea Medrado | Public Service as Moral Economy 2 | ||
| Dimitrinka Stoyanova & Irena Grugulis | Entry tournaments in UK television | ||
| Panel 3 ROOM G.12 |
Production Ethics 1 | Neil Percival | TV versus low-budget film: same laws, different ethics |
| Jonathan Ong | Classed moralities of TV audiences: Filipino interpretations of exploitation & empowerment in media pilgrimages | ||
| Nicholas Carah | The Gruen Transfer: advertising experts scrutinising advertising | ||
| Bridget Conor | ‘You’ve got to fight for your corner’: the ethics of collaboration in screenwriting work |
2.45 – 3.15: Break
| Thurs 3.15-4.30pm | Theme | Speakers | Topic |
| Panel 4 ROOM 2.31 |
Creative Value | Andrew Weir | Crowdsourced labour: an individualized race to the bottom? |
| Renée Ridgway | Paid usership | ||
| Alessandro Gandini | Creative value in popular music | ||
| Panel 5 ROOM G.12 |
Virtues, Goods and Practices | Mark Banks | MacIntyre, Bourdieu & the practice of Jazz |
| Benjamin Woo | Virtues, vices, and media practices: towards a normative framework for cultural policy | ||
| Luke Jaaniste | We lead a double life: the ethics of the institutional life vs the ethics of the practice life | ||
| Panel 6 ROOM 1.18 |
Micro Moralities & Methods | Stephanie Taylor | ‘I’m quite a motivated and kind of political sort of person’: exploring the morality of contemporary creative work |
| Holly Patrick | Art for Art’s Sake? Rethinking value and morality in creative work | ||
| Leo Hwang Carlos | Participatory action research: redefining creative economy development from a grassroots perspective |
4.45 – 6.15: Plenary Panel (chair, Bethany Klein):
- David Hesmondhalgh: Free creative labour and exploitation
- Philip Schlesinger: Living on performance
- Melissa Gregg: Labour politics and the state of exception
6.30: Drinks reception to launch Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries by David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Baker
7pm: Conference buffet
FRIDAY 8TH JULY
9.30 – 10.15: Keynote: ‘Hard jobs in Hollywood: how concentration in distribution affects the production side of the media entertainment industry’, Susan Christopherson (chair: Helen Kennedy)
| Fri 10.20-12.05pm | Theme | Speakers | Topic |
| Panel 7 ROOM 2.31 |
Policy / Politics | Daniel Ashton | Creative labour and higher education |
| Oli Mould, Tim Vorley, Kai Lu | Hidden creativity? Highlighting the impact of freelancers in London’s creative industries | ||
| Fabian Frenzel & Armin Beverungen | Values or value: drivers of social innovation and regeneration in Stokes Croft | ||
| Mark Rimmer | Ethics and politics in contemporary community music work | ||
| Panel 8 ROOM 1.18 |
Production Ethics 2 | Clarissa Smith | ‘It’s not the content, it’s how it is produced’: labouring over ethics, morals and commerce in porn production |
| Rodanthi Tzanelli | Cinematic pilgrimage in New Zealand: the case of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit | ||
| Chris Paterson | Child labour in UK television production | ||
| Vicky Mayer | Moral Tactics in a Film Production Economy | ||
| Panel 9 ROOM G.12 |
Networked Moralities | Helen Kennedy | Data miners: the ethics of sentiment analysis |
| Ben Roberts | Against the ‘networked information economy’: rethinking decentralisation, creative labour and free software development | ||
| Jeremy Hunsinger | From Hacklabs to Hacker Markets: becoming complicit in self-exploitation | ||
| Adrian Wright | Understanding the labour process in software and digital gaming |
12-1pm: Lunch
| Fri 1-2.15pm | Theme | Speakers | Topic |
| Panel 10 ROOM 1.18 |
Production Ethics 3 | Allan Watson | “We’re not solving the Middle East peace crisis. We’re just trying to make music here”: examining emotional labour in the recording studio |
| Daniel Mutibwa | Examining the ‘hybrid’ practices in Third Sector media industries and assessing their impact in the processes of cultural production | ||
| Ana Alacovska | Genre-oriented creative work | ||
| Panel 11 ROOM G.12 |
Visual Moralities | Danielle Child | Thomas Hirschhorn: artist as project manager? |
| Alberto López Cuenca | The visual arts under postfordism. expropriation, social workforce and the ethics of creative labour | ||
| John Vail & Robert Hollands | Cultural work and transformative arts | ||
| Panel 12 ROOM 2.31 |
Conceptualising Moral Economies | Scott Fitzgerald | The place(s) of good work: moral economies within global production networks |
| Adam Arvidsson | The ethical economy: an argument for the democratisation of value | ||
| Caroline Hamilton | On publishing as a moral economy | ||
2.15 – 2.45: Break
| Fri 2.45-4.00pm | Theme | Speakers | Topic |
| Panel 13 ROOM 2.31 |
Exploitation and Social Mobility | Sabina Siebert and Julian Calvert | Counting the cost of social capital: unpaid internships for student journalists |
| David Lee | Creative industries and the death of social mobility: raising questions of social justice in an internship culture | ||
| Jorg Wiegratz | Good, legitimate and acceptable exploitation: the role of morality in capitalist systems of social interaction | ||
| Panel 14 ROOM 1.18 |
Plural Labours | Bingqing Xia | Labour in Chinese Internet Industries |
| Catherine Robin | Confronting moral concepts: interactions within ‘creative’ production networks | ||
| The Precarious Workers’ Brigade | Politics, or just performance? Precarity: a participatory people’s tribunal | ||
| Panel 15 ROOM G.12 |
Immaterial & Emotional Labour | Gauti Sigthorsson | Carrotwork and other work: the creative industries and the culture of free labour |
| Caitlin Lennon | Reworking the Immaterial: Lazzarato and the new definition of the precarious worker | ||
| Jenna Ward & Stephen Linstead | The nature of emotional labour: exploitation or expression? |
4.15 -5.00pm: Keynote: ‘Creative Work: problems for moral economy’, Andrew Sayer (chair, David Lee)
5.00: conference ends