ProfJohn Roberts

Comparative Literature and Culture

Lecture 'Killed Negatives' as part of a symposium on exhibition, 'Killed Negatives', Whitechapel Gallery, London

‘Roundtable discussion: Realism Today’, with John Roberts, Christoph Cox, Sami Khatib, Marina Vishmidt, Dave Beech; questions asked by Octavian Esanu, ArtMargins Journal, MIT, Vol 7, Issue No 1,

Art & Work

Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte,

‘Agency and Crisis: Scenes from Political Philosophy and Contemporary Art’ (speakers included, Meena Dhanda, Angela Dimitrakaki, Stewart Martin, Gerald Raunig, William Pawlett, Benjamin Halligan, John Roberts and Adam Kossoff).

‘On Contradiction and Asymmetry’, John Roberts interviewed by Sezgin Boynik, Rab-Rab Journal, No 3

e-flux internet discussionI, between John Roberts, Greg Sholette, Marc James Léger, and Nina Power, about ‘Strike Art: Let’s talk about Yates McKee’s 2016 book on art, activism and Occupy’

Lecture, ‘The Avant-Garde, Historicism and the Second Economy’, as part of the symposium, ‘Re-theorizing the Avant-Garde Today’, Kings College, Cambridge University.

Lecture, 'The Political Economy of the Image', as part of the conference, '21st Century Photography' Central St.Martins, London

Talk, as part of a symposium on Leon Golub, Royal College, London

Landscape Research

Lecture, ‘The ‘Everyday’ Today’, as part of the symposium ‘Everything is Somehow Included’, ICA, London

‘Surplus Desire’, conversation with Maria Fusco and Diedrich Diederichsen, ICA, London

'Craft After De-Skilling', Camberwell School of Art, London

'Postmodern Politics', Cambridge University Dialectic Society, Trinity College, Cambridge University

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

‘Violence and Representation’ (speakers included, Steve Edwards, Simon Baker, John Roberts, Susan Meiselas, Shahidul Alam, Alberto Toscano, Simon Norfolk, and Julian Stallabrass) Tate Gallery.

Philosophy of Photography

Art and the Public Sphere

Philosophy of Photography

Organiser: ‘Forgotten Modernisms’ (speakers included Gerry Carlin, Mat Dalgleish, Glyn Hambrook, Dámaso López Garcia, Aidan Byrne, Adam Kossof, Euripides Altintzoglou),

Historical Materialism

Third Text

‘Diffusion: Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Art’ (speakers included Eve Chiapello, Jochen Gerz, Brian Holmes, John Roberts, Stephen Wright, Charles Green, Bureau d’Etudes, François Deck).