With/Out Modernity gathering at the 2019 Humanities & Social Sciences Congress

From June 2nd to 6th Vanessa Andreotti, Elwood Jimmy, and members of their hosting team will bring together an international network of knowledge holders to give space and offer insights into a set of key questions around hospicing the death of modernity, and imagining new ways of knowing and being together. Below is an outline of the installations, workshops, practices, and conversations, with a link to register.

June 2 Opening ceremony and reception

Welcome, land acknowledgement, invitations, and reception for the art exhibit featuring Sandra Semchuk, Leslie McCue, and Denise Silva

June 3 Colonialism as the trauma of separability

Body attunement and affective stretchings workshops

Fishbowl conversations: on being and separability; on petro-capitalist modernity; on settler-colonial relations

June 4 The difficulties of affective interruptions

Body attunement and affective stretchings workshops

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

Body attunement and affective stretchings workshops

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/