Research Activities 2015-2020

(2020-23) Co-supervisor for PhD candidate Kyle Rath, Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria on his project about the philosophy of information design: “Complex characters: a dialectical approach to understanding typography in the context of Barthesian and Baudrillardian philosophy”

(2017-21) Editor of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (ISSN:  1705-6411)

(2019-21) Commissioned essay on ‘Fake Truth‘ for poster book and several exhibitions by the BAFTA award-winning artist Alison Jackson (exhibitions held in Stockholm, Tallinn, Vienna, and Los Angeles)

(2018-2019) Selected and sourced interviews for Laurent de Sutter to enable French publication of: (2019) Jean Baudrillard: Entretiens, 1968-2008 (Presses Universitaires de France)

(2018) Organization of 2nd International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ (Oxford, September 5th to 7th)

(2018) Curator of exhibition on ‘Collecting Baudrillard’ at the 2nd International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ (Oxford, September 5th to 7th)

(2018) Opening Keynote address on ‘Baudrillard’s Photographic Theory’ at the 2nd International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ (Oxford, September 5th to 7th)

(2018) Keynote address and round-table participation in a colloquium on Jean Baudrillard’s ‘Strange World’: Photography and Architecture at Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO) in Rome (November)

(2017) Presentation of ‘The Disappearance of Culture’, Table ronde internationale, Colloque Baudrillard Street One Paris (June)

Publications (2015-20):

Smith RG (2020) ‘Baudrillard’s Photographic Theory’, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 16 (1)

Smith RG (2019) ‘Baudrillard, Jean’, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

Smith RG (2019) ‘Introduction – International Symposium on Jean Baudrillard: ‘Baudrillard Redux”, in Extending Baudrillard: Space, Image, Representation (MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome)) Catalogue, 21-11-2018), unpaginated

Smith RG (2019) ‘A World Beyond The Real: Jean Baudrillard’s Photographic Theory’, in Extending Baudrillard: Space, Image, Representation (MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome)) Catalogue, 21-11-2018), unpaginated

Smith RG ed. (2018) Remembering Gerry Coulter, Special Commemorative Issue of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 15 (1)

Smith RG (2018) ‘Editorial: The A to Z of Baudrillard: Remembering Gerry Coulter’s Scholarship’, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 15 (1)

Smith RG (2018) ‘In Memoriam G.C.’, The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory

Smith RG (2018) ‘Jean Baudrillard’, in Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory. Ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo (London, Bloomsbury), pp. 387-388

Smith RG and Clarke DB eds. (2017) Jean Baudrillard: the Disappearance of Culture: Uncollected Interviews (Edinburgh University Press)

Smith RG and Clarke DB eds. (2015) Jean Baudrillard: from Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews (Edinburgh University Press)