You are welcome to attend the latest CMR seminar series.
The event will bring together scholars working across disciplines on migration, colonialism, othering, diversity, and indigeneity beyond conventional text-centred interpretations, to explore the social, experiential, affective and relational dimensions of performative approaches. Focusing on the senses, new technologies, disability, dance, music, theatre, martial arts, sports events and legal proceedings, embodiment sheds light on the cracks where the experiential and collaborative aspects of social and political life emerge.
This seminar invites us to reconsider the ways in which we conceptualise dis/emplacement, accessibility, inclusion, and exclusion through embodied practices and experiences of minorities. How do minorities position themselves in relationship to state/law/society by way of embodiment? How do they navigate different exclusions and produce different accessibilities to social justice? What role do these accessibilities play in processes of political claims? How do they create spaces for participation in societal and political life?
A dominant model of political theory relies on conceptualising those involved in politics as disembodied human beings who are capable of transcending differences introduced by/in their bodies. A focus on embodiment rekindles our attention to the ways in which contemporary societies can develop and engage in decision-making processes that are as inclusive and just as possible whilst acknowledging difference. We focus on disruption, affect and empathy in order to examine transformative embodiments vis-à-vis agency, power, inequality, violence and materiality.
**The seminar series will be submitted as an edited volume to an international press**
Seminar Convenors: Mimina Pateraki, University of Aegean ([email protected]) & Ruxandra Ana, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań ([email protected])
Event details:
Wednesdays 4 – 5pm (UK TIME)
Online Meeting link here
