Leon Wainwright, Roundtable discussion  Chair: Leon Wainwright Tropenmuseum The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) On 5-6 February 2013, the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) hosted the project conference ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’.

The Open Arts Journal hosted a research seminar and reception at the OU Camden, London to mark the Journal’s launch this summer. Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University), spoke about her article published in Issue 1, 'The Precarious Ecologies of Cosmopolitanism'. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion including: Professor Berthold Schoene and Dr Ellie Byrne (guest editors of our inaugural issue, and both at Manchester Metropolitan University) together with Open Arts Journal editor-in-chief Dr Leon Wainwright (OU Art History), and Q&A.

The project is designed to initiate new relationships and exchanges among the academic, policy, curating and artistic communities. Supported by the European Science Foundation (Humanities in the European Research Area, HERA). Traumatic pasts have complex and often dramatic influences on the present. The conference will explore creative engagements with controversial pasts in art practice, curating and museums, establishing a dialogue among diverse participants. Read more about our theme and aims on the project website www.open.ac.uk/Arts/disturbing-pasts/.

On 21st and 22nd May the Department of Art History and Department of Geography (Leon Wainwright and Clare Melhuish) hosted the international meeting ‘Caribbean Urban Aesthetics’, at The Open University’s Walton Hall campus in Milton Keynes. This was a preliminary workshop to bring together scholars and professionals from various disciplines and institutions, sharing a mutual interest in this field of studies both within and beyond the Caribbean itself, and to explore the possibilities for future collaborative research.

Part 9. Panel discussion and Q&A chaired by Marko Daniel

This study day explores issues raised by a major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at Tate Modern. His extraordinary body of work is the springboard for a critical exploration of ideas around the meaning of pop in the US and UK and its legacy for contemporary art and culture. Curators, academics and artists will contribute to the debates.

Part 6. Leon Wainwright, Decolonising British pop​

This study day explores issues raised by a major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at Tate Modern. His extraordinary body of work is the springboard for a critical exploration of ideas around the meaning of pop in the US and UK and its legacy for contemporary art and culture. Curators, academics and artists will contribute to the debates.

Part 5. Panel discussion and Q&A chaired by Gill Perry

This study day explores issues raised by a major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at Tate Modern. His extraordinary body of work is the springboard for a critical exploration of ideas around the meaning of pop in the US and UK and its legacy for contemporary art and culture. Curators, academics and artists will contribute to the debates.

In this gallery talk, Leon Wainwright explores the idea of the ‘authentic outsider’ and how artists R.B. Kitaj and David Hockney - in their different ways – were became part of a celebrated idea of Britishness and otherness in the age of Pop.

Anthony Downey joins a panel including Bonnie Greer, Leon Wainwright and Gayle Chong Kwan to discuss Chris Ofili and his work.

This panel discussion, part of a major international symposium at Tate Liverpool, considers recent developments in the globalisation of the contemporary art of Africa and its many diasporas. Speakers include: Leon Wainwright, Chris Spring and Roger Malbert. The event was in association with the exhibition, Afro Modern