VIRTUAL Creaction 2: 'No, I won’t calm down'

With Gabrielle Le Roux / Olumide Popoola / Syrus Marcus Ware / Şevval Kılıç

All are welcome. The event will run on Zoom. The link and passcode will be provided on your confirmation email when you register. Register to attend at: https://ias-creaction-calmdown.eventbrite.co.uk

In the Creaction series (funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship) 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's The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence and we have been exploring these issues in hakan sandal-wilson’s seminar series titled ‘Methods in Question: Epistemologies of Gender and Sexuality’, including this conversation between hakan and Natasha Tanna on the politics of writing, and Abeyamí Ortega's work on mapping art, activism and critical thinking for social justice, in collaboration with artist and editor Frédérique Bangerter.  

Our ethos includes a focus on:

• Politically-engaged/social justice work that decentres or questions conventional scholarly forms 
• 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 what ‘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

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need assistance on the day, and follow this FAQ link for more information and to read our virtual events code of conduct. All of our events are free, but you can support the IAS here.

Convenors:

• Abeyamí Ortega (she/her * they/them)
• hakan sandal-wilson (he/him)
• Natasha Tanna (she/her)

Image credit: Photo by Eric Han on Unsplash