About the event

Speakers: Prof. Angela Dimitrakaki, Dr Kirsten Llyod and Dr Tamara Trodd

Chair: Dr Ian Rothwell

Abstract

To mark the recent and upcoming publication of their books, Angela Dimitrakaki, Tamara Trodd and Kirsten Lloyd will join together for conversation and discussion on shared themes, including art, realism and documentary, subjectivity under contemporary capitalism, epistemology, historical return and the rise of global fascisms.

Biography

Angela Dimitrakaki is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Kirsten Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Curating, and Tamara Trodd is  Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art in the University of Edinburgh. Dimitrakaki is the author of Feminism. Art. Capitalism. (Pluto Press, 2025), Trodd is the author of Counter-Realism: Art and Subjectivity in Contemporary Capitalism (MUP, 2025), and Lloyd is the author of Contemporary Art and Capitalist Life (MUP, forthcoming, 2026).

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