Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity Symposium

The symposium is conceived as an invitation to rethink transdisciplinarity under the increasingly urgent, deteriorating, and transitional conditions of the present. It takes as its point of departure the question of how relations between disciplines, and collaboration across them, might be reconfigured in response to problems that increasingly exceed the grasp of any single field.

Against this backdrop, the symposium seeks to reconsider the relation between science, politics, and aesthetics, focusing in particular on the role of perception, sensitivity, and representation in rendering fragility visible. If contemporary research unfolds across hybrid institutional and disciplinary contexts, under what conditions can collaboration between artistic, theoretical, and scientific practices meaningfully take shape today?

The symposium aims to provide a space for reflection, contribution, and dialogue among researchers and practitioners working across these fields. It also offers a platform for doctoral researchers supported by the Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership to engage critically with fragility and sensitivity as methodological, institutional, and aesthetic conditions shaping contemporary cross-disciplinary research.

Snacks and lunch are provided for Techne students.

For more information and the Call for Contributions, see:
https://philevents.org/event/show/148345