European Doctoral Seminar > Calender 2011
Calender 2011
March
Collective futures - Organizing critical experience
March 3-5, 2011
European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity. Intensive course, London
The deadline for the call is February 6, 2011
Contact email: collectivefutures@gmail.com
June
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH ACADEMIA
June 16-18, 2011 (TBC)
European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity. Intensive course, Copenhagen
tjhe deadline for the call is May 12, 2001
Contact email: howtodothingswithacademia@gmail.com
2011 Agenda
Unfolding the Academic – A critical Site Analysis in three Loops
European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity
Against the background of the current state of crisis increasingly permeating all areas of
cultural production, a critical site analysis of the humanities seems to be of crucial
importance. Where do we locate ourselves? Which are the conditions of the sites we are
speaking from and performing in right now? Which shifts are those sites undergoing in the
face of the crisis and by which means can we respond to them?
Unfolding the Academic – A critical Site Analysis in three Loops ventures a rethinking of the
agency of academia in times of crisis. It intends to take a sounding in the current conditions of
academic production while at the same time practically probing alternative scopes for action.
The three-step site analysis is constituted as a self-reflexive and dynamic assemblage of
practices defining the current state of academia with respect to the particular environment in
which each joint symposium takes place. On the basis of three core methodological
perspectives, each symposium is aimed at the production of a set of practices gauging and
mapping new rooms for manoeuvre within the realms of its proper milieu.
Specifically, these three interweaving perspectives are:
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Practices of knowledge production and performance
The aim of this perspective is to create academic formats that spawn a performance of knowledge which simultaneously reflects on its own performativity in the sense of an applied theory. -
Collective knowledge development
The aim of this perspective is to experiment with different forms of collective knowledge production and presentation and thereby shape new academic formats. -
Boundaries of academia
The aim of this perspective is to explore the boundaries of academia as well as the benefits of linking it with the non-academic.
Once this mapping has taken place, it will respectively denote the point of departure for the
next joint symposium. That is, each symposium is preceded by a postprocessing, critically
reflecting on the set of practices created throughout the previous symposium. The three joint
symposia hence follow a non-directed movement of continuous, collective and participatory
learning, negating the idea of a fixed re-location of academia as well as that of an
evolutionary refinement of academic practice.
According to this, instead of a final documentation of results of research, the aim of
Unfolding the Academic – A critical Site Analysis in three loops is to collect all interim
findings in form of a dynamic user manual which will change continuously over the course of
its taking place. This user manual will address academics as well as all others involved or
interested in practices of collective knowledge production and performance.