Intimately Material: Collective Reflexion on the Material Conditions of Academia

Joint event organised in collaboration with the EUI Queer and Feminist Working Group

WHAT?

The workshop is part of the conference “Intimately Material: Violence, Social Reproduction, & Queerness in Transition”, organised by the EUI Queer and Feminist Working Group at the EUI.

In the workshop, we will interrogate the place of academia and the participants’ lived experiences of doing research. By collectively writing “sick notes”, we want to discuss themes related to the material conditions of doing research, such as job uncertainty, capitalistic approaches to research, academic mobility, and social reproduction. Our conclusions will be turned into a collective statement expressing our own experienced materialities and ideas of change.