A one-day symposium and workshop for early-career researchers whose work concerns the interrelated roles played by academia, activism, practice and other areas of social action.

Engaged research offers opportunities for forms of knowledge making that learn from and with publics and demand thinking across disciplines. Yet institutional pressures can be in tension with the priorities of publics, and with more honest analyses of academic contributions to movements for transformation and liberation.

We invite papers and active participants to this event in a spirit of learning and curiosity. Panel sessions will be followed by an interdisciplinary Roundtable Dialogue with speakers including Prof Hannah Jones and a workshop on ‘Writing active public(s)’ with Dr Nirmal Puwar, in which we will reflect on the pleasures and challenges of writing about this work.

Please find full details in the poster, available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Mt1pxaSRbYy0A6ETREkMLglLqTaTQnh/view?usp=sharingLink opens in a new window 

 

Call deadline October 11th 2024. 

To register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ_CuTcZIWvvfV_sbc2tiwy5OVPUqEJmFGB2VH0gd-sVLoDQ/viewformLink opens in a new window

Please send questions or suggestions to the workshop organisers at activepublicsworkshop@gmail.com.