<nettime-ann> SELF ORGANISING IV :: PEDAGOGY AND REPRODUCTION

Friday May 27^th

Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, Queen Mary University London E14NS

Nearest tube: Mile End

Map: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/docs/about/26065.pdf (No. 33 on the map)
Time: 5pm-7pm

An encounter to muse and think together about practices of self-organising, education, reproduction, dissent and constitution. Conversations will be triggered by:

Robert Sember (Ultrared)

Robert Sember joined Ultra-red for SILENT|LISTEN in 2005. Over the past fifteen years he has contributed to ethnographic research and policy analysis related to HIV/AIDS and other public health concerns in the United States, South Africa and Brazil. Sember brings a background in performance studies to his research and his collaborations with artists and curators around the world. He has taught in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, the School of the Arts at the University of California in Los Angeles and at the University of Amsterdam’s International School for Humanities and Social Sciences. He was 2009-2010 fellow with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School in New York.

Arianna Bove (www.generation-online.org)

Arianna Bove is an independent researcher and translator involved in the making of www.generation-online.org, where her work can be found. She currently teaches at QMUL.

Mate Kapović, assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb) and political activist (Academic Solidarity, Zagreb)

Academic Solidarity is the first directly democratic trade union in the sphere of science and higher education in Croatia. It has spread to several cities in only a few months, gaining wide spread media attention and support, influencing the mass rebellion against the introduction of neo-liberal laws in education throughout Croatian universities.

Vedrana Bibić (The Occupation Cookbook, Plenum delegate; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb)

A school occupation is not, as the corporate media like to portray it, a hostile takeover. It is an action by those who are already its inhabitants – students, faculty, and staff – and those for whom the school exists. The student activism, their single demand (‘free publicly financed education on all levels available to all’ i.e. legal abolition of all fees within the educational system) and their directly democratic methods have created organizational structures regularly used two years after the initial take over of the faculty in the spring 2009.

Resources:

The Occupation Cookbook:

http://slobodnifilozofski.org/?p=1901

http://www.minorcompositions.info/occupationcookbook.html

http://www.minorcompositions.info/occupationcookbook-web.pdf

Four Protocols (Ultra-red) https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwziZIryzvR-M2E3OGRhM2MtYTRjNi00MTBhLWI3OGUtMzNkOGMxYTExOWQ4&hl=en

A Preliminary Outline of Paulo Freire's "Thematic Investigation" as Cultural Action Chapter 3, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968). Prepared by Ultra-red for discussion, revision, dissemination, and practice: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwziZIryzvR-Y2MwNmM4OGUtMzI2MS00MTdmLTk1NDYtMWRhMWUxNGZiYzY1&hl=en

Generation-online http://www.generation-online.org/

Ultra-red: http://www.ultrared.org/directory.html http://www.ultrared.org/pso8.html

Akademska Solidarnost, a directly democratic trade union (Croatia): http://sites.google.com/site/akadsolid/tko-smo