11:30
Birkbeck
June 20
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
The LCCT is an annual interdisciplinary conference that provides a forum for emergent critical scholarship. The event is always free for all to attend and follows a model that seeks to foster opportunities for intellectual critical exchanges where all are treated equally regardless of affiliation or seniority. The conference is envisaged as a space for those who share intellectual approaches and interests - whether giving a paper, attending as an audience member or participating in a workshop, and including those who may find themselves at the margins of their discipline.
There is no pre-determined theme for each iteration of the conference. Each year the conference’s intellectual content and thematic foci are determined by the streams that are accepted for inclusion in response to the Call for Stream Proposals (now closed). Submission deadline for the call for papers Friday 4th April.
The streams for LCCT 2025 are:
● The Art of the Gimmick
● The Crisis of Experience in the in the Age of Algorithmic Attention
● Critical Thought Maintenance: How to mediate intellectual and organisational form (and get away with it!)
● The Cruellest and Most Bloody Stream Imaginable: What’s Left of Warhammer 40,000?
● Cruising as Critical Methodology: Practices and Imaginaries from the Shadows
● Is Empathy Dead? Understanding and Questioning The Relevance and Significance of Empathy in the Digital Age
● Labour and Liveness in a New Age of Automation
● Margins & Ambiguities: Reflections Between Material and Epistemological Metaphors and Limits
● Monstrous Becomings: The politics, aesthetics and contradictions of Monstrosity