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​​​​​​​In these sessions, participants will respond in various ways to their session title and to the ‘keywords’ ofÌýborders / discipline(s) / social justice / trans-formations.
We are bringing together performers, artists, writers, including academics, all of whom see their work as focussing on social justice. There are many inspirations for this work, including Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge'sÌýÌýand we have been exploring these issues inÌýhakan sandal-wilson’s seminar series titled ‘’, includingÌýÌýbetween hakan and Natasha Tanna on the politics of writing, and Abeyamà Ortega's work onÌý,Ìýin collaboration with artist and editorÌý.ÌýÌý
In these sessions, participants will respond in various ways to their session title and to the ‘keywords’ ofÌýborders / discipline(s) / social justice / trans-formations. They will also discuss their creative critical processes.Ìý
Creaction 1: 'fugitive texts of the wayward' (after Saidiya Hartman)
Tuesday 18 May, 5-6.30pm (BST)
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Creaction 2:Ìý'No, I won’t calm down'
Tuesday 15 June, 5-6:30pm (BST)
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Creaction 3: 'better to speak, remembering' (after Audre Lorde)
Tuesday 13 July, 5-6.30pm (BST)
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Our ethos includes a focus on:
- Politically-engaged/social justice work that decentres or questions conventional scholarly formsÌý
- Centring creativity, pleasure, and joy in knowledge production, even when working with difficult and painful issues, in order to counter the spectacle of violence towards racialised bodies
- Addressing hierarchies of knowledge production and knowledge producers and bridging academia/activist/creative divide
- Questioning whatÌý‘rigour’ means and how the term is deployed
- Thinking about experimental, creative, and collaborative ways of doing research, even when not technically doing what might be considered practice-based research
- Ìý(she/her * they/them)
- Ìý(³ó±ð/³ó¾±³¾)
- Natasha TannaÌý(²õ³ó±ð/³ó±ð°ù)
This series is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.
Image credit:ÌýPhoto byÌýÌý´Ç²ÔÌý
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