The discursive-material knot and participatory struggles over memory.<br/>POEM public lecture by Dr Nico Carpentier (Charles University in Prague)<br/>

Tue. 17th September 2019 | 09:30-10:30
Location: University of Uppsala, Sweden

This event is free to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-discursive-material-knot-and-participatory-struggles-over-memory-tickets-61860236633

ABOUT THIS EVENT
The talk starts from the 2017 book “The discursive-material knot” to reflect on both the material and discursive components of participation, and how they are entangled. The talk will then focus on participatory theory (offering a re-reading through the lenses of the discourse-material knot) and the two main (and competing) models that conceptualize participation, namely participation-as-taking-part and participation-as-sharing-power. In the third part of the talk, this discussion on participation will then be illustrated through the struggles over the memorialization of the Cyprus Problem, and how both interactions and participations can offer forms of resistance towards the hegemonic antagonistic ways of remembering.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nico Carpentier is Docent at Charles University in Prague; he also holds part-time positions at Uppsala University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB - Free University of Brussels). Moreover, he is a Research Fellow at the Cyprus University of Technology and Loughborough University. Earlier, he was ECREA Treasurer (2005-2012) and Vice-President (2008-2012), and IAMCR Treasurer (2012-2016). Currently, he is Chair of the Participatory Communication Research Section at IAMCR. His latest books are The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation (2017, Peter Lang, New York); Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, Materialities, and Cultures (2018, co-edited), Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change (2018, co-edited), Respublika! Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy (2019, edited), and Communication and Discourse Theory (2019, co-edited). http://nicocarpentier.net/

ABOUT POEM
POEM is a Horizon 2020 European Training Network of 7 institutions across Europe. POEM stands for Participatory Memory Work (PMW) and addresses the urgent need of experts in the heritage sector who are qualified for working with the mediatized memory ecology, the changing socio-technical, organisational, legal, economic, and ethical frameworks for the use of cultural materials. The early stage researchers (ESRs) will have the capacity to mediate between the stakeholder’s memory institutions, civil society, and creative and digital/IT industries for empowering people across Europe and for initiating future-envisioning creativity and innovation promoting socially inclusive memory practices.

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