Join us for a series of online seminars with dr Barbara Dynda (PAN), Stephanie Niu, prof. elena pavan, and dr Aurora Perego (UniTrento, Italy). The series is curated and led by dr Aleksandra Kamińska (University of Warsaw) and Maria Halber.
The way we tell our stories remains crucial to the everlasting pursuit of inclusion and social transformation. Storytelling allows us to imagine otherwise: to reshape collective narratives and to give form to what has been overlooked or silenced. In every act of telling, there lies both an artistic and political gesture – the need to be present and seen.
𝙕𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨, 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨. 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖 is a three-part online seminar series exploring independent publishing and digital expression as tools of solidarity, resistance, and community-building. Drawing from the legacies of publishing and activism, the series invites participants to consider how creative practices can make space for voices excluded from mainstream discourse, and how small-scale, self-organized publishing continues to serve as a ground for care, empowerment, and engagement. Bringing together scholars and creators, the series focuses on both the material and affective dimensions of DIY making and sharing work – how the printed page, the spoken word, and the digital screen each become realms of dialogue and dissent.
Open to all online via Zoom
𝟭𝟭/𝟮𝟯 𝟰 𝙋𝙈 𝘾𝙀𝙏: 𝙕𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮-𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙨 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 – 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚 𝙉𝙞𝙪 & 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙚𝙧
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81129427452?pwd=aEdTSFi4wFux63gL67lwB7L6LQBRkd.1
Centered on a youth poetry zine called Our Island, Our Future, this seminar explores the potential of the zine format to be an inter-generational tool for imagining community futures. Published in 2023, Our Island, Our Future gathers the voices of sixteen youth poets on Christmas Island. The seminar will discuss the process of publishing this collaborative zine and explore how the DIY ethic of zines might relate to other frameworks of community archiving by engaging the past alongside the future.
Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of three poetry collections, including I Would Define the Sun, which won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize. Her research interests–including community archiving, islands, and extinction–stem from her work on Christmas Island as a Fulbright scholar.
Organizator/ka: Krytyka Polityczna