Transmission in Motion Seminar 2024-2025 – Implicatedness

*Image Credit: Georgiana Houghton, Automatic Painting, 1864

Event | Transmission in Motion Seminar 2024-2025 – Implicatedness
Dates: 16 October 2024, 13 November 2024, 4 December 2024, 5 February 2025, 5 March 2025, 26 March 2025, 23 April 2025, 21 May 2025
Location: Grote Zaal of the department of Media & Culture of Utrecht University (Muntstraat 2a, Utrecht).
Organizers: Maaike Bleeker, Iris van der Tuin, Nanna Verhoeff, Sorcha Brennan (Student Assistant)
Contact & registration: tim@uu.nl
Credits: 3 ECTS (Details below)
More information here

“We are implicated in the worlds that we critique; being critical does not suspend any such implication,” observes Sarah Ahmed. She is not the only one addressing the complexities of what it means to be implicated. Media theorist Mark Hansen argues for a phenomenology of implicatedness to account for how human experience increasingly takes shape within networks extending beyond our awareness and operating in ways we do not have access to. Michael Rothberg proposes the notion of ‘implicated subject’ to describe the condition of indirect participation in injustices initiated in distant times and places but carrying present consequences. This year’s seminar investigates and questions various aspects of being implicated, how this affects agency and responsibility, and what possibilities we have for critical and creative engagement with and from this condition.

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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Credit Requirements

Like in past years and in collaboration with NICA (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis) we offer students the option to acquire credits (3ECTS) by contributing to our seminar series “Implicatedness” in the form of blogposts or documentation (400-500 words) for 5 out of 8 sessions. Deadline to register for student participation in the series for credits is November 11th, for more information, please contact us at tim@uu.nl. Feel free to check out past student past student blogposts and documentation on our website.

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The Meet the Makers programme facilitates meetings and conversations between students, teachers and researchers at UU, and makers – i.e., artists, curators, dramaturges, designers or other creative practitioners and professionals within the wider field of arts and culture. We usually organise a Meet the Makers event every block during the academic year, but sometimes more. If you are interested in joining a session, take a look at the programme below. You can register via the link at the top of the event.



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