Please join the Adventures in Posthumanism Network for their research seminars which are open to all. The seminars will be delivered online via Zoom (all times are GMT).
Wednesday 26 February, 13:00–14:30 | Methodological Adventurings: Using thematic and diffractive analysis to propose a posthuman notion of agency
Speaker:
Dr Claudia Blandon
, University of Plymouth
Abstract
"Grounded on my doctoral work, in this presentation I discuss how I used both thematic and diffractive analysis to propose a posthuman notion of agency. Inspired by Barad (2007), Ringrose and Renold (2014), Ringrose and Zarabadi (2018), Tamboukou (2020), and Haraway (2016), my work was underpinned by a feminist vibrant materialist approach that paid close attention to the role matter and the more-than-human played in rendering Colombian women human rights educators agentic.
"Grounded on my doctoral work, in this presentation I discuss how I used both thematic and diffractive analysis to propose a posthuman notion of agency. Inspired by Barad (2007), Ringrose and Renold (2014), Ringrose and Zarabadi (2018), Tamboukou (2020), and Haraway (2016), my work was underpinned by a feminist vibrant materialist approach that paid close attention to the role matter and the more-than-human played in rendering Colombian women human rights educators agentic.
My research brought together forced migration studies, human rights education and feminist vibrant (new) materialist epistemologies to explore how multiple entanglements of human rights education programmes, legal instruments and other discourses shaped women’s conceptions of agency and vulnerability in Colombia. From this exploration, I proposed a posthuman cartography of agency (PCA) as a conceptual tool that sees notions of agency as contextual, multiple, relational, spatial and temporal."
The presentation will focus on the methodological journey of combining traditional thematic analysis with diffractive approaches.
Biography
Claudia Blandon is an Alumni Research Fellow and an Associate Lecturer in the School of Society and Culture at the University of Plymouth. She has a doctorate in Education from the University of Plymouth, a masters in International Human Rights Law, and a diploma in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies from the American University in Cairo.
Claudia Blandon is an Alumni Research Fellow and an Associate Lecturer in the School of Society and Culture at the University of Plymouth. She has a doctorate in Education from the University of Plymouth, a masters in International Human Rights Law, and a diploma in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies from the American University in Cairo.
Wednesday 5 March, 14:00–15:30 | Writing Sensation: Sense, Events and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry
Speaker: Andrew Mark Gillot, University of Stirling and Leeds Beckett University
Abstract
How do we convey felt, intimate encounters between people, shared objects, spaces and atmospheres? How do we inquire of moments that make themselves felt with the sparest of signs, in flashing glances and gestures; the felt feeling of relations in which unfamiliar forms take shape? Just how might we set about writing sensation?
How do we convey felt, intimate encounters between people, shared objects, spaces and atmospheres? How do we inquire of moments that make themselves felt with the sparest of signs, in flashing glances and gestures; the felt feeling of relations in which unfamiliar forms take shape? Just how might we set about writing sensation?
Andrew takes on these questions with creativity, speculation and invention. His book illuminates the ‘creative-relational’ as a poietic and transversal concept of an inquiry capable of attending to the way events throw themselves together, and how forms take shape in the interplay of difference. Engaging with postfoundational and postqualitative approaches to inquiry, Writing Sensation offers readers both engaging, creative and affirmative readings of scholars such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, and enactments of how one may write the immanent moment of emergent circumstances.
Biography
Andrew is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Sport at the University of Stirling and Visiting Fellow in the Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University. He is particularly interested in collaborative, transdisciplinary and postfoundational modes of inquiry that offer ways of probing a sense of what is happening as it makes itself felt.
Andrew is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Sport at the University of Stirling and Visiting Fellow in the Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University. He is particularly interested in collaborative, transdisciplinary and postfoundational modes of inquiry that offer ways of probing a sense of what is happening as it makes itself felt.
We very much hope you can join us for this event to be chaired by Dr Mary Garland and Dr Ken Gale.
Zoom link: https://plymouth.zoom.us/j/98621692083?pwd=cG3Hm4MoQJCvgDcDPZPAcifTbXeNGA.1
Meeting ID: 986 2169 2083 / Passcode: 652767
Meeting ID: 986 2169 2083 / Passcode: 652767