[Commlist] After Agency - OPEN CALL/CFP

*AFTER AGENCY* / international conference open call
12-14 November 2019 / Poznan, Poland
*http://artandsciencestudies.com/en/after-agency/
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*Organization*:
Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center
Adam Mickiewicz University
Poznan, Poland
www.artandsciencestudies.com <http://www.artandsciencestudies.com>

*Venue*:
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center: Coworking Lab
Zwierzyniecka Street 20, Poznan

*Important dates*:
Abstract submission deadline: 30 MAY 2019
Abstract acceptance notification: 30 JUNE 2019
Conference dates: 12-14 NOVEMBER 2019

‘After Agency’ is a provocation. It seems that agency might be in 
trouble – what we think of it, what we make of it, what and who has it 
and what emerges in its unfolding or de-folding. Scholars have informed 
us of the more-than-human agencies of emergent worlds (Haraway, 2008; 
Tsing, 2015; Kirsky, 2015; Kohn, 2013) and the speculative becomings 
of/with agencies that alter the possibility of worlds (Morton, 2013; 
Taussig, 2018; Murphy, 2017; Weizman, 2012; Barad, 2007) in the context 
of capitalist violence, anthropogenic toxicities and the timely matter 
of life itself.

‘Agency’ and the collective sensibility of agency inform the practice of 
research, knowledge production, methodologies and methods of situated 
thinking with the world at large. The posthuman and ontological turn in 
the wake of the Anthropocene (Braidotti, 2013; Wark, 2015; Chandler, 
2018; Castro, 2009; Escobar, 2018) offers a certain opportunity to push 
further, conceptual questionings of what is conventionally thought of as 
agency.Attuned to the situatedness of each of our many political 
encounters – we notice the spectre of financial violence, white 
supremacy and capitalist injustice wound up in the figuring of our 
presumed times “after agency.” Does this not then call for a reimagining 
of our methods and methodologies?

Guided by three web interventions for each stream by McKenzie Wark, Rosi 
Braidotti and Peter Kahn, this international conference situated at the 
Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center in Poznan, Poland calls on 
participants (academics, artists, performers, activists, readers and 
writers) to join us at the confluence of three streams discussing: 
Resistance, Speculation, and Adaptation in these troubled times of agency.

More details here: http://artandsciencestudies.com/en/after-agency/

*Abstract submission*:
All abstracts should be submitted using the EasyChair system. Submission 
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aa19
The length of the abstract must be between 300 and 500 words (excluding 
title, keywords and references). All the abstracts/proposals will be 
peer-reviewed by two external reviewers. Please state in the abstract 
precisely the form of presentation and the title of the stream you are 
going to submit the presentation.Presentations delivered during the 
conference should not be longer than 20 minutes.There is no conference 
fee for the speakers. We will also be able to offer accommodation (12-14 
November 2019) for the speakers; coffee and lunch during the conference 
days.There will be a monograph published after the conference, with 
selected papers post peer review.

*Organising Committee*:
Agnieszka Jelewska, Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center, Adam 
Mickiewicz University (e-mail: (jelewska /at/ amu.edu.pl) 
<mailto:(jelewska /at/ amu.edu.pl)>); Michał Krawczak, 
Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center, Adam Mickiewicz University 
(e-mail: (michal.krawczak /at/ amu.edu.pl) <mailto:(michal.krawczak /at/ amu.edu.pl)>);
Brett Zehner, Brown University (e-mail: (brett_zehner /at/ brown.edu) 
<mailto:(brett_zehner /at/ brown.edu)>); Harshavardhan Bhat, University of 
Westminster (e-mail: (harsh.s.bhat /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(harsh.s.bhat /at/ gmail.com)>)

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