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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">OPEN SEMINAR: IMAGINE EUROPE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">IAMCR’s Participatory Communication Research
Section and Roskilde University are happy to invite artists, academics, and
students to submit proposals for the Imagine Europe seminar.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">WHEN AND WHERE</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Date: Thursday, 19 October 2017, 9 AM – 5 PM</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Location: Roskilde, Denmark</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SUBMISSION AND DEADLINE</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">To submit a proposal, send a presentation abstract
or project description of no more than 500 words (per participant, in case of a
panel) to the organiser, Jonas Agerbæk Jeppesen, at <<a href="mailto:joagje@ruc.dk">joagje@ruc.dk</a>>.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The deadline for submitting proposals is August 15,
2017.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">THEME</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Imagine Europe seminar gathers participants
interested in discussing and experimenting with participatory and creative
methods, with the aim to articulate, explore, and create knowledge and
perspectives on the contemporary, so-called European ‘crisis’.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dramas fuelled by financial instability, the
refugee influx, Brexit, and the shifting directions of newly-elect governments
powerfully reveal a breakdown and need for re-negotiating a shared sense of
‘Europe’—both in terms of its meaning and in terms of its value as a common
political, social and cultural project, and as provider of an agonistic
identity to its citizens. With the collapse of the progress narrative—the idea
that we’re moving towards ‘ever closer union’—space has been opened for the
re-emergence of older visions of, for and about Europe, and for new visions to
be developed and circulate. These intersecting and competing visions range from
pleas to renew the prior consensus, to dreams of renegotiating Europe from the
ground up, or of retreating from Europe altogether, and withdraw into more
‘traditional’ and ‘natural’ units, based in nationality, ethnicity or religion.
These visions come from many different actors within Europe and from outside of
its borders, including from migrants seeking refuge from structural and
political violence.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">As these actors express new social imaginaries,
they also, and on larger or smaller scales, (attempt to) mobilize publics
around their competing visions—engaging them in struggles to translate these
imaginaries in material realities, to bring about a European space, or set of
spaces, that may suit their needs, desires and phantasies. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">While it is not clear which vision or set of
visions will stand when the dust of recent ‘crises’ had settled, it remains a
paramount task for us as students, artists, and academics to reflect, to
critique, and to take action as history unfolds.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">CONTRIBUTIONS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">With the aim of supporting discussion and dialogue
across thematic and disciplinary boundaries, we invite contributions that
include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* Research presentations</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* Presentations of artistic projects</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* Interactive performances, short film screenings,
installations</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* Workshops</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS (TENTATIVE)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* Keynote on “Discursive-material struggles over
Europe” by Prof. Nico Carpentier</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* Keynote on artistry and intercultural dialogue in
Danish refugee initiatives (TBA)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* City walk and interactive workshop by Assoc.
Prof. Kristine Samson</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* Project presentations, workshops, and
performances by seminar participants</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ATTENDANCE</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The seminar is open to all. Prior registration is
required. For online participation, contact the organiser, Jonas Agerbæk
Jeppesen at <<a href="mailto:joagje@ruc.dk">joagje@ruc.dk</a>>.</span></p>
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