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Café des Artistes 11

Professor Eamonn Carrabine and Dr Fiona Anderson hosted a discussion on Diane Arbus on 10 March 2015, at Kirkcaldy Galleries, Kirkcaldy with Professor Neil Cox in the chair.

Eamonn Carrabine speaking about Diane Arbus at Café des Artistes number 11.

Eamonn Carrabine is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, where his teaching and research interests lie in the fields of criminology, cultural studies and sociology more generally.

Fiona Anderson speaking about Diane Arbus at Café des Artistes number 11.

His books include Crime in Modern Britain (co-authored, 2002), Power, Discourse and Society: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (2004), and Crime, Culture and the Media (2008), while his co-authored textbook Criminology: A Sociological Introduction is now in its third edition.

View of audience at Café des Artistes 11 chaired by Neil Cox.

He is currently writing a book on Crime and Social Theory, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan, and then plans to write a book on the Iconography of Punishment, focussing on how punishment has been represented in the literary and visual arts.

He serves on several editorial boards and is the co-editor of the academic journal Crime, Media, Culture.

Fiona Anderson is Senior Teaching Fellow in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh.

Her research focuses on American art and queer culture from the 1950s to the 1990s, looking most closely at gay cruising cultures and HIV/AIDS activism.

She received her PhD in American Studies from King’s College London in 2012.

Prior to working at Edinburgh, she was Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of York. She has published articles on the artists David Wojnarowicz and Peter Hujar in Papers of Surrealism, and on Ray Johnson and Walt Whitman in the Journal of American Studies.

Forthcoming publications include articles on the popular preservation of the Manhattan waterfront, and Peter Hujar's ruin photography, and a book chapter on collaboration and the ‘alternative space’ in 1980s New York.

Fiona is currently adapting her thesis for publication as a book, titled Monks of the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar, and the Queer Ruins of Old New York, and working on a new project on artists’ treatment of HIV/AIDS and the space of the hospital in the US and the UK.

Related links

Podcast of Café des Artistes no. 11 on Diane Arbus