COST Action IS1307 Training School

“Thinking with agency – towards a materialization of a new materialist politics”

Activity
Dialogs and workshops | 20-22.11.2017 | 20.11.2017 16.00h – 19.30h 21.11.2017 9.30h – 17.00h 22.11.2017 9.30h – 14.30h Exhibition at Balcony until 26.11.2017 Cloister Max Cahner, Lecture room and Balcony

The oral session called “Dialogue” will be open and free entrance with a maximun capacity of 75 people

The workshop will be addressed to PhD students and Young researchers previusly registered

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The activity frames in the Project COST Action IS1307. New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter”.

Training School will be built by means of: open sessions conducted both by Local and International political actors and researchers within new materialism, workshops with active pedagogies will be addressed to/designed for interested PhD students and Young researchers. And exhibitions of national and international artists who materializing politically whatever is happening.

Today’s world is fast-changing and we also see some very common socio-political forms returning with a vengeance: sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia and racism are as prominent today as rhetorics of change. New materialism is one of the paradigms interested in responding to this situation and investigating new and old forms of affective politics, successful and troubling organizational experiments, and glocal processes that alter hegemonic mechanisms of power, which reinstall structural differences that ignore the multiplicity of differing. The political potential of New Materialism remains to be actualized. In light of the turbulent times we live in, environmentally as well as politically, such new patterns of politics urgently need to materialise.

This training school looks for materializing affects that can conform new experimental changes in order to transform classical notions of politics into new platforms for agitation.

 We call both for participants well acquainted with new materialism and for those that are new to it but interested in experimenting with organizational structures whether in grass-root movements or in critical analyses of traditional power play.  We aim at engaging in productive dialogues between people coming from different disciplines, policy-oriented and activist areas in order to disrupt the neoliberal tendencies of academic and non-academic political spaces. 

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Organitza

COST European cooperations in science & techonology; Esbrina; Arts Santa Mònica; Departament de Didàctica i Organització Educativa, Facultat d’Educació, Universitat de Barcelona; i el Departament d’Arts Visuals i Disseny, Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat de Barcelona