# Event Details - **Event Name**: Slaggy Poetics: Poetry, Performance and Research as Practice - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: Dr Katie Beswick, School of Creative Management, Goldsmiths, University of LondonAbout this EventResearch Seminar - Department of Art History and Cultural Practices, University of ManchesterSlaggy Poetics: Poetry, Performance and Research as PracticeDr Katie Beswick, School of Creative Management, Goldsmiths, University of LondonAbstractMy recent book Slags on Stage: Art, Sex, Class and Desire in British Culture weaves cultural analysis with poetry and art criticism to explore the concept of the ‘slag’ and its place in contemporary British culture.The book traces the etymology of the word slag through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, thinking through the ways ‘slag’ speaks to issues of class, sex and desire. Broadly, slag is an insult bound up with women’s sexual reputations – but beyond this, it is a ‘key’ word that shapes the ways we debate and understand what it means to be a woman. For women who came of age in the United Kingdom in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, ‘slag’ produces complex feelings and has influenced how we have come to know ourselves and understand our sexual and quotidian desires. This book explores the terrain of slag and includes analyses of artworks by artists who have invoked the slag in their practice, including Tracey Emin, Cash Carraway and Michaela Coel. Covering the cultural politics of clothing, motherhood, television representations, sexual assault, sex work and desire, Slags on Stage asks what role does the ‘slag’ play in British culture? Who is she for? And how have women used sex and sexuality to have their own say in cultures that want to control them?In this talk, I summarise my findings from the Slags on Stage project and outline my approach to research both as and through practice. By this, I mean the ‘practice research’ methods I used (in which poetry became an important mode of affective inquiry and writing), as well as the way projects grounded in working-class studies draw on methods of everyday practice that unsettles notions of ‘objectivity’ and ‘rigour’ — standards that have tended to dominate assessments of academic research quality in Western contexts since the Enlightenment.BiographyKatie Beswick is a writer and academic based in the School of Creative Management at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research is located at the intersection of cultural studies and performance studies — her work is characterised by the reading together of artworks and the wider social, political and cultural landscape within which artworks are produced, to better understand the cultural and political function of (performance) art in contemporary contexts. Her books include: Social Housing in Performance: The English Council Estate on and Off Stage (Methuen 2019); Making Hip Hop Theatre (Methuen 2022); Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture (Routledge 2025) and Class in British Musical Theatre (Methuen 2026). She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, an arts journalist and a widely published poet. Her debut poetry collection, Plumstead Pram Pushers (Red Ogre 2024), explores the affective terrain of the insult ‘slag’ and its cultural meaning in the south east London area where she was born and raised. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manchester/slaggy-poetics-poetry-performance-and-research-as-practice/100001660034801779 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Workshops, Theatre, Entertainment, dance - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fslaggy-poetics-poetry-performance-and-research-as-practice-tickets-1660034801779 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Manchester - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: University Place, 4.205, University of Manchester - **lat**: 53.4662776 - **long**: -2.2338159 - **full address**: University Place, 4.205, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Department of Art History and Cultural Practices (https://allevents.in/org/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices/26726864) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/ad5c3bacc158f4ff5754edece1d6ce0a66128de638bb7ba93cc06017efaa7def-rimg-w1200-h800-dc040203-gmir.jpg?v=1758264519 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/0ce959e10f45fe083a68ea5e67210ea25712c2bf347274d8334376d71a241a09-rimg-w400-h400-dc060404-gmir.jpg?v=1758264515 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** University Place, 4.205, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Department of Art History and Cultural Practices - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, literary-art, Workshops, Theatre, Entertainment, dance - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Slaggy Poetics: Poetry, Performance and Research as Practice ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Slaggy Poetics: Poetry, Performance and Research as Practice", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/ad5c3bacc158f4ff5754edece1d6ce0a66128de638bb7ba93cc06017efaa7def-rimg-w1200-h800-dc040203-gmir.jpg?v=1758264519", "startDate": "2025-11-26", "endDate": "2025-11-26", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/slaggy-poetics-poetry-performance-and-research-as-practice/100001660034801779", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "University Place, 4.205, University of Manchester", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Oxford Road", "postalCode": "M13 9PL", "addressLocality": "Manchester", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "53.4662776", "longitude": "-2.2338159" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Dr Katie Beswick, School of Creative Management, Goldsmiths, University of London", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2025-11-26", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/slaggy-poetics-poetry-performance-and-research-as-practice/100001660034801779" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/slaggy-poetics-poetry-performance-and-research-as-practice/100001660034801779", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Department of Art History and Cultural Practices", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices/26726864" } ] } ] ```