HoA RSS | Prof. Angela Dimitrakaki, Dr Kirsten Lloyd and Dr Tamara Trodd

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Thu Mar 26 2026 at 05:15 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC+00:00

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Hunter Lecture Theatre | Edinburgh, SC

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Art, Capitalist Life and Global Fascism: A Discussion
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Join History of Art (HoA) for the next talk in the Research Seminar Series (RSS) chaired by Dr Ian Rothwell.

This lecture will be hybrid. Please book your ticket for attendance in person or online.

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.

About Prof. Angela Dimitrakaki, Dr Kirsten Lloyd and Dr Tamara Trodd

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).


Image: Melanie Gilligan, The Common Sense, 2014–15, detail from ECA exhibition 2018. Photo: Neil Hanna.


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