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Shortness - A very short conference and a very long dinner

Tate Modern Saturday 20 June 2009, 14.00-21.30

14.00-17.00 symposium
18.00-21.30 dinner in the East Room

In short, this event brings together practitioners and theoreticians
of the humanities, arts and sciences to extol or berate, to discuss,
explore and explain shortness in all its spatial and temporal
manifestations.

Shortness tackles topics ranging from aphorisms, txt msgs and short
attention spans to nanophilology, sampling, ephemeral relationships,
punch lines, short narratives and other short-lived entities and
phenomena (insects and fashion).

The short conference is followed by a long dinner in Tate Modern's
East Room. Dinner guests will be entertained by short speeches and the
whole event is supplemented by short films, performances and various
interventions.

Conference speakers: DJ Spooky, Sadie Plant, Dan and Lia Perjovschi
and Tom Shakespeare. Dinner speakers include Clare Wigfall and Steven
Connor amongst others. The compère for the dinner will be Nicholas
Parsons.

Organised by Tate Modern Public Programmes in collaboration with Irini
Marinaki and Konstantinos Stefanis (London Consortium) and Ricarda
Vidal (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies).

In collaboration with The London Consortium and with additional
support from LCACE
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£15 (£10 concessions), booking required
£50 (£45 concessions) for dinner and conference

For more information about the event and to book tickets, please visit
Tate's website http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/18189.htm
book online or call 020 7887 8888.