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Kharaj is a style of sound meditation, performed as basic voice practice in the Dhrupad tradition of Indian Classical Music. Marianne Svašek, a trained Dhrupad vocalist who teaches at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands, will guide you in the online sessions that consist of singing long notes.
The Dutch vocalist Marianne Svašek studied Indian classical music (Dhrupad) in India and the Netherlands with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar and Uday Bhawalkar. She graduated cum laude at the Rotterdam Conservatory where she is presently teaching. Dhrupad is the oldest form of North-Indian classical music. Its origin is linked with the recitation of the sacred syllable Om and the Vedic sutras.
Georgios is sound-artist and PhD researcher at SARC. He happily shares his work with the delegates.
What you need: Mobile phone + headphones/earphones + Echoes soundwalk app (can download audio via the app and then will not need data)
Instructions: Go to one of the locations on the map, walk into the circle, and audio will play (can press pause/play also). Each project has a list of locations and further descriptions.
These projects are accessible via Echoes (GPS soundwalks - Available on the Apple Store and Google Playstore):
1. Sounding Belfast During Covid-19 (Lockdowns)
https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/QZQN9a10To92iDoM
2. Peace Wall Belfast Soundwalks
https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/0txhFuJvg1KSjjHZ
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Delegates will be welcomed to the conference by the EASA Executive Committee, the Local Committee and Visit Belfast. The keynote will follow brief speeches.
The unfoundedness of hope: Engaging the contingencies of the im-possible for critical presents
In what ways might critical epistemologies induce transformative potentialities for our times despite the power apparatuses that organize the present and future? How do such critical epistemologies become counterpublic spaces, claims, and infrastructural formations of resistance, solidarity, collective care, commoning, and dissent? How do we understand what makes it possible and impossible for those bodies to leave their assigned places and get in the way of normative public appearance laying claim to a public in ways that are often not yet authorized and in ways that open space for others to be? Rather than an uncritical embrace of the optimism-pessimism binary, this line of questioning calls for rethinking the aporetic qualities of loss and hope inherent in agonistic engagements with publicness, making oneself public or making things public as ongoing sites of hierarchy, contestation, struggle, and conflicting social imaginaries. Lingering on precarious articulations of unevenly distributed despair and hope, this lecture addresses how counterpublic performativity in light of racialized, gendered, and classed exhaustion involves the inappropriate/d situated knowledges of vulnerability -as a shared uncommon in all its multiplicities and partialities- but also the potential of re-embodying conditions of impossibility as conditions of transformative possibility.
Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). She is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Laboratory of Anthropological Research. Among her publications are the books -in English: Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black (2017); Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Judith Butler, 2013); Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and 'the Greeks' (co-ed., 2010); and in Greek: Crisis as a ‘State of Exception’ (2012); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (2007); Deconstructing the Empire: Theory and Politics of Postcolonial Studies (ed., 2016); Feminist Theory and Culture Critique (ed., 2006). She has been a fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, at Brown University, and at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, at Columbia University. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of several journals (Critical Times, Feminist Formations, Journal of Greek Media and Culture, and others). Her research interests include: gender studies, contemporary critical theory, politics of memory, vulnerability and resistance, theories of performativity, and decolonial critique. She is currently working on a manuscript on critical and im-possible temporalities.
Kharaj is a style of sound meditation,
performed as basic voice practice in the Dhrupad tradition of Indian Classical Music. Marianne Svašek, a trained
Dhrupad vocalist who teaches at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands, will guide you in the online sessions
that consist of singing long notes.
If you wish to participate, please register here.
The Dutch vocalist Marianne Svašek studied Indian classical music (Dhrupad) in India and the Netherlands with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar and Uday Bhawalkar. She graduated cum laude at the Rotterdam Conservatory where she is presently teaching. Dhrupad is the oldest form of North-Indian classical music. Its origin is linked with the recitation of the sacred syllable Om and the Vedic sutras.
Virtual Tinkering Exhibition
Location: Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 July in the Graduate School https://www.qub.ac.uk/graduate-school/
Curated by Martin Leibinger (Bauhaus University Weimar) and Maruška Svašek (Queen’s University Belfast)
Why?
In 2022, six universities (Bauhaus University Weimar, Rennes University, Concordia University Montreal, University College Cork, University of Barcelona and Queen’s University Belfast) collaborated on an exciting teaching project conceptualised as a ‘garage’: a repository for tools and ideas, a refuge from daily routines, and a safe space where creative people come together to share the enjoyment of collaborative making and tinkering. Students were matched across the partner institutions and engaged in digital exchanges with multi-local and online artistic and research outcomes. The exhibition presents their innovative interdisciplinary projects.
Exhibition Talks by some participants of the Public Arts Garage’s Virtual Tinkering exhibition will take place on Thursday 28 July from 9am to 10.45am in Main Site Tower (MST), 01/003.
Location: Brian Friel Theatre, Queen's University campus
Conveners:
Eva van Roekel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Fiona Murphy, (Queen’s University Belfast)
Alisse Waterston (City University of New York, John Jay College)
Have you ever fantasized about writing poetry, a short story, or performing a short theatre play inspired by your fieldwork to shake up a timely debate in anthropology? The Ethnographic Salon is a creative space for both established and nascent anthropologists that facilitates experimentation and performative engagements with ethnography in its broadest sense.
Possible creative performances are -but are not limited to- poetry slams, short story readings, radio plays, immersive soundscapes, and improvisation theatre that are inspired by field experiences that ill-fit academic writing and theorising.
Location: Sunflower Pub, 65 Union St, Belfast BT1 2JG. Link to map
PrecAnthro is a collective concerned with the political and theoretical implications of the precaritization of our discipline. Our roundtable at EASA2022 aims to confront this precarity with a hope for radical political possibilities within anthropology. We invite you to a roundtable discussion on such questions as: what gives us hope for anthropology, and what do we find worth preserving and defending in this precarious discipline? Is it classic concerns such as, kinship and ritual, the radical interventions of feminist, Marxist and postcolonial theories, or some combination of both? What place does anthropology have in the broader landscape of scholarship committed to radical political change?'
Participants:
Matan Kaminer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Towards a class-struggle anthropology?
Nasrin Khandoker (National University of Ireland, Galway): An anthropologist and feminist from South Asia in Europe: a precarious positionality with decolonial politics
Raluca Roman (Queen's University Belfast): Cross-border precarity: academic mobility and the unsettled life
Valentina Zagaria (Central European University): Precarious defiance: practising ethnography and critical border studies in Tunisia
Pizza will be provided but drinks are your own responsibility!
Kharaj is a style of sound meditation,
performed as basic voice practice in the Dhrupad tradition of Indian Classical Music. Marianne Svašek, a trained
Dhrupad vocalist who teaches at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands, will guide you in the online sessions
that consist of singing long notes.
If you wish to participate, please register here.
The Dutch vocalist Marianne Svašek studied Indian classical music (Dhrupad) in India and the Netherlands with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar and Uday Bhawalkar. She graduated cum laude at the Rotterdam Conservatory where she is presently teaching. Dhrupad is the oldest form of North-Indian classical music. Its origin is linked with the recitation of the sacred syllable Om and the Vedic sutras.
Georgios is sound-artist and PhD researcher at SARC. He happily shares his work with the delegates.
What you need: Mobile phone + headphones/earphones + Echoes soundwalk app (can download audio via the app and then will not need data)
Instructions: Go to one of the locations on the map, walk into the circle, and audio will play (can press pause/play also). Each project has a list of locations and further descriptions.
These projects are accessible via Echoes (GPS soundwalks - Available on the Apple Store and Google Playstore):
1. Sounding Belfast During Covid-19 (Lockdowns)
https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/QZQN9a10To92iDoM
2.
Peace Wall Belfast Soundwalks
https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/0txhFuJvg1KSjjHZ
Location: Main Site Tower (MST), 01/003
The poster exhibition Virtual Tinkering will be on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 July in the Graduate School https://www.qub.ac.uk/graduate-school/
Talks by participants of the Public Arts Garage’s Virtual Tinkering exhibition, an interdisciplinary collaboration between postgraduate students from anthropology, visual art, drama, dance, architecture, sonic arts, literature, design, history, art history and film studies
In 2022, six universities (Bauhaus University Weimar, Rennes University, Concordia University Montreal, University College Cork, University of Barcelona and Queen’s University Belfast) collaborated on an exciting teaching project conceptualised as a ‘garage’: a repository for tools and ideas, a refuge from daily routines, and a safe space where creative people come together to share the enjoyment of collaborative making and tinkering. Students were matched across the partner institutions and engaged in digital exchanges with multi-local and online artistic and research outcomes. The exhibition presents their innovative interdisciplinary projects.
Curated by Martin Leibinger (Bauhaus University Weimar) and Maruška Svašek (Queen’s University Belfast)
The concert presents two Irish bands and a vocal performance of Indian classical Dhrupad music. The concert takes place in the Duncairn and is streamed online below.
The performers
Conor O’Kane is
an traditional singer, environmentalist educator, regenerative grower, and performance poet, who has recorded and
performed internationally in the English, French, Irish and Scots languages. From Derry City with a heritage in both
the Sperrin Mountains and Donegal, his work has a strong sense of place, history and with the struggle for both
human rights and the rights of the natural world.
The Dutch vocalist Marianne Svašek
studied Indian classical music (Dhrupad) in India and the Netherlands with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ustad Zia
Fariduddin Dagar and Uday Bhawalkar. She graduated cum laude at the Rotterdam Conservatory where she is presently
teaching. Dhrupad is the oldest form of North-Indian classical music. Its origin is linked with the recitation of
the sacred syllable Om and the Vedic sutras. https://mariannesvasek.com/music/
Samim Daud is a passionate tabla player born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His love for Indian music
brought him to the Codarts Conservatory in the Netherlands, where he completed his bachelor's degree in Tabla and is
currently pursuing his master's degree under the supervision of his teacher Niti Ranjan Biswas.
The Tradpole Crew are a selection of
traditional Irish musicians that can often be spotted playing in a corner of a popular pub in Belfast city centre,
among many others. Bringing the warmth, swing, and relaxed quality of a traditional Irish session are Brendan
Loughran (concertina), Paddy McKeown (guitar and banjo) Joe
Campbell-McCardle (guitar and flute) Maureen Walker (fiddle) and Anna
Poloni (flute and whistle).
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Kharaj is a style of sound meditation,
performed as basic voice practice in the Dhrupad tradition of Indian Classical Music. Marianne Svašek, a trained
Dhrupad vocalist who teaches at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands, will guide you in the online sessions
that consist of singing long notes.
If you wish to participate, please register here.
The Dutch vocalist Marianne Svašek studied Indian classical music (Dhrupad) in India and the Netherlands with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar and Uday Bhawalkar. She graduated cum laude at the Rotterdam Conservatory where she is presently teaching. Dhrupad is the oldest form of North-Indian classical music. Its origin is linked with the recitation of the sacred syllable Om and the Vedic sutras.
Georgios is sound-artist and PhD researcher at SARC. He happily shares his work with the delegates.
What you need: Mobile phone + headphones/earphones + Echoes soundwalk app (can download audio via the app and then will not need data)
Instructions: Go to one of the locations on the map, walk into the circle, and audio will play (can press pause/play also). Each project has a list of locations and further descriptions.
These projects are accessible via Echoes (GPS soundwalks - Available on the Apple Store and Google Playstore):
1. Sounding Belfast During Covid-19 (Lockdowns)
https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/QZQN9a10To92iDoM
2. Peace Wall Belfast Soundwalks
https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/0txhFuJvg1KSjjHZ
Log in to see the Zoom link.
Location: 26 University Square (UQ), 01/005
Lead by Dr. Holly Walters and Dr. Kathleen Openshaw of the MeTooAnthro Collective (www.metooanthro.org). This session will be hybrid with online access.
Please register for this event in advance here.
