Event | Transmission in Motion Seminar 2023-2024 – ‘Matters of Concern’

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Event | Transmission in Motion Seminar 2023-2024 – ‘Matters of Concern’
Dates: 4 October 2023, 22 November 2023, 13 December 2023, 24 January 2024, 21 February 2024, 20 March 2024, 24 April 2024, 15 May 2024
Time: 15:00-17:00 (Grote Zaal, Muntstraat 2A)
Location: Utrecht University
Contact & registration: tim@uu.nl
Credits: 4 ECTS (Details below)
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When Latour proposed ‘matters of concern’ in 2004 he was thinking about all things head, hand, and heart, but prioritizing head, perhaps, as an anthropologist of science. The cognitive domain was at risk of being captivated by those who were not genuinely sympathetic towards it, and had to be saved for fundamental, applied, and speculative research. Soon, hand and heart were given equal importance: Puig de la Bellacasa coined ‘matters of care’ in 2017 in an attempt to highlight the affective and transversal dimensions of matters of concern. Science and everyday life are entangled, just like the cognitive, the corporeal, and the cooperative domains. Now more than ever, scholars learn not only from books but also by doing. They (we) engage with makers and publics as part of research. How do scholars use their research for matters of concern, what are those matters and how to use research in order to do so (other than just analyzing or criticizing)?

This year’s seminar will take place at the Grote Zaal of the department of Media & Culture of Utrecht University (Muntstraat 2a, Utrecht).

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Programme

Credit Requirements

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The assignment to acquire 4EC for the TiM seminar is to write a blogpost of 400-500 words after each seminar session about one or more subjects that were discussed during the session. Students will also take turns documenting each seminar session, in which case the documentation replaces their blogpost assignment. Depending on the number of students participating in the program, each student will be asked to document 1-2 sessions.

Students must attend and hand in assignments for at least 7 sessions to qualify for the credits. Both the blogposts and documentations count as one assignment. Students’ contributions will be published on the Transmission in Motion website.

Blogposts

Blogposts can be about something you found particularly interesting, remarkable, relevant, or useful. It can also be about questions that came up in relation to what was discussed, or about connections between what was discussed and other subjects that are relevant in the context of the Transmission in Motion framework. However, please note that your blogpost should not be a summary of the session. Below are requirements of a blogpost:

  • A blogpost should include a title, and consist of 400-500 words.  
  • Include one or more photo, and make sure you have the rights to publish this photo (some useful websites are Pixabay or CreativeCommons).  
  • Do not forget to include your bibliography. Please use Chicago author-date style.  
  • The deadline is 2 weeks after each session.
  • For inspiration you can have a look at previous TiM student blog posts.

Documentation

This year, we ask the students who participate in the blog post assignments to participating in the documentation of sessions. Students will take turns every session to document organized notes of the session. The student in charge of that month’s seminar session will be contacted in advance. Contrary to blogposts, documentations should provide concise summaries of sessions. Below are requirements of a documentation:

  • Do not forget to include your bibliography. Please use Chicago author-date style.  
  • The deadline is 2 weeks after each session.
  • For inspiration you can have a look at previous TiM documentations.


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