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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Paperology: A Reading and Activity Group on 
Knowing and Being with Paper


http://paperology.site/ <http://paperology.site/>


We are excited to announce the Paperology Reading and Activity Group 
will take place for a second season during the 2021-2022 academic year. 
Before we tell you more, we extend our sincere thanks and gratitude to 
the PaperologyRAG founders, Juliette De Maeyer, Aleksandra Kaminska, 
Alysse Kushinski, and Ghislain Thibault. For more information about last 
year’s PaperologyRAG, please visit www.artefactlab.ca/paperology 
<http://www.artefactlab.ca/paperology>.


We have an exciting year ahead of us! The objective for this group is to 
engage with the emerging research and growing literature on paper as 
material and discuss paper in light of its ability to capture our 
imagination, engage our senses, and remain a beacon of continuity in our 
lives. The PaperologyRAG will be engaging with paper as material through 
a variety of media that consider how paper is used and the practices it 
affords. This includes thinking through an assortment of paper-based 
artefacts with texts from various disciplines and creative practices.


For PaperologyRAG 2.0 we offer the following questions: How has humanity 
interacted with paper? Is paper in our future? How has paper in its 
various permutations given rise to specific things, systems, and 
cultures, including certain formats and genres (e.g. love letters, index 
cards, cookbooks, photographs, paper ephemera, codebooks, mathematical 
objects) and activities (e.g. crafting, listening, ripping, folding and 
tearing, and sewing)? As we move through the articles and media on our 
mediagraphy which we will be finalizing shortly, questions such as these 
will serve as signposts to foster a space for exploration, for engaging 
with novel ways of thinking about paper and for formulating new 
questions around media, materiality, and the continued role of paper in 
digital environments.


Format & Participation

We will meet monthly via Zoom to discuss readings and other information 
sources organized around themes, which might include: the senses; the 
environment; sentiment; bureaucracy; craft; propaganda; degradation; 
ephemera; value; the erotic; aesthetics; gender; or others. The reading 
list for each month will be a collection of articles, chapters, short 
works or online media. An indicative mediagraphy will be included on our 
website (link at the top of this email) in the coming weeks.


The PaperologyRAG is an informal, deeply interdisciplinary seminar-style 
group where we aim to foster an open and collegial discussion around 
monthly themes/articles/media. We encourage a sustained conversation 
over the year through ongoing participation each month. However, given 
that we continue to face some uncertainty (moving back to in-person 
working/teaching), we understand that attending regularly may not be 
possible for many. Therefore, we encourage you to read/watch/listen and 
come prepared to chat, but if you don’t get a chance to prepare, you’re 
still welcome to participate just by listening in.

For those who are interested in engaging with paper through making, 
activities will be suggested throughout the year, including DIY 
projects, artist presentations and other activities still being 
programmed. For more information on programming as it emerges, please 
visit our website. Please let us know if you would be interested in 
sharing your making practice or making site with the group.


Please Respond

We welcome researchers, scholars, writers, artists, archivists, 
librarians and others from diverse backgrounds, including communications 
and media studies. If you are interested in participating, send us a bit 
of information about yourself (your current affiliation, your general 
area of research, and why the interest in paper) in roughly 100 words.

Please send your information to us by August 20th at 
(paperologyrag /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(paperologyrag /at/ gmail.com)>


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