*Workshop CFP *
*AFTER AGENCY*
12-14 November 2019 / Poznan, Poland

*http://artandsciencestudies.com/en/after-agency/
<http://artandsciencestudies.com/en/after-agency/>*
Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

*Important dates*:
Abstract submission deadline: 30 MAY 2019
Abstract acceptance notification: 30 JUNE 2019
Conference dates: 12-14 NOVEMBER 2019

‘After Agency’ is a provocation. It seems that agency might be in trouble –
what we think of it, what we make of it, what and who has it and what
emerges in its unfolding. Scholars have informed us of the more-than-human
agencies of emergent worlds (Haraway, 2008; Tsing, 2015; Kirsky, 2015;
Kohn, 2013) and the speculative becomings of/with agencies that alter the
possibility of worlds (Morton, 2013; Taussig, 2018; Murphy, 2017; Weizman,
2012; Barad, 2007) in the context of capitalist violence, anthropogenic
toxicities and the timely matter of life itself.

‘Agency’ and the collective sensibility of agency inform the practice of
research, knowledge production, methodologies and methods of situated
thinking with the world at large. The posthuman and ontological turn in the
wake of the Anthropocene (Braidotti, 2013; Wark, 2015; Chandler, 2018;
Castro, 2009; Escobar, 2018) offers a certain opportunity to push further,
conceptual questionings of what is conventionally thought of as agency. Attuned
to the situatedness of each of our many political encounters – we notice
the spectre of financial violence, white supremacy and capitalist injustice
wound up in the figuring of our presumed times “after agency.” Does this
not then call for a reimagining of our methods and methodologies?

Guided by three webinar interventions for each stream by McKenzie Wark,
Rosi Braidotti and Peter Kahn, this conference situated at the
Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center in Poznan, Poland calls on
participants (academics, artists, performers, activists, readers and
writers) to join us at the confluence of three streams discussing:
Resistance, Speculation, and Adaptation in these troubled times of agency.

More details here: http://artandsciencestudies.com/en/after-agency/

*Abstract submission*:
All abstracts should be submitted using the EasyChair system. Submission
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aa19
The length of the abstract must be between 300 and 500 words (excluding
title, keywords and references). All the abstracts/proposals will be
peer-reviewed by two external reviewers. Please state in the abstract
precisely the form of presentation and the title of the stream you are
going to submit the presentation. Presentations delivered during the
conference should not be longer than 20 minutes. There is no conference fee
for presenters. The workshop will also be able to cover accommodation (12 -
14 November), coffee and lunch during conference days. We are also planning
on publishing a monograph after the conference with selected papers post
review.

*Organising Committee*:
Agnieszka Jelewska, Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center, Adam
Mickiewicz University (e-mail: [log in to unmask]); Michał Krawczak,
Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center, Adam Mickiewicz University
(e-mail: [log in to unmask]); Brett Zehner, Brown University
(e-mail: [log in to unmask]); Harshavardhan Bhat, University of
Westminster (e-mail: [log in to unmask])

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