congress2019

Installation and series of artist/scholar talks and workshops, part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2019

3-6 June, 8 am to 7 pm, Fort Camp Lounge, Gage Tower

June 3 Colonialism as the trauma of separability

08:00 –12:30 body attunement and affective stretchings workshops

13:30 – 19:00 fishbowl conversations: on being and separability; on petro-capitalist modernity; on settler-colonial relations

June 4 The difficulties of affective interruptions

08:00 –12:30 body attunement and affective stretchings workshops

13:30 – 19:00 fishbowl conversations: problematizing representation, inclusion and appropriation; problematizing artistic and curatorial practices; problematizing critical pedagogies and emotional labour

June 5 Experimentations in getting one’s act together

08:00 –12:30 body attunement and affective stretchings workshops

13:30 – 20:00 fishbowl conversations: gesturing beyond representation; gesturing beyond colonial hope; closing circle: towards the end of the world as we know it

June 6 Exploring antidotes to indifference

10-1pm / 2-7pm Radical tenderness and co(m)passion workshop

Registration open: http://edst.educ.ubc.ca/withoutmodernity/

If you would like to be a volunteer for this event, please email vanessa.andreotti@ubc.ca by 21 Feb 2019