TiM Double-Bill: Anika Marschall & Jaswina Elahi

As the first Transmission in Motion event of the 2024/25 academic year will be a special seminar Double-Bill with Anika Marschall and Jaswina Elahi who will each present their rescheduled sessions from the previous series ‘Matters of Concern.’

 “Researching performance in the wake: Commitment to a healing labour” – Anika Marschall (UU)

Anika Marschall’s seminar offers an associative, humble dialogue with Christina Sharpe’s seminal work In the Wake: On Blackness and Being and performances which perform “wake work”, in particular the durational performances We’re Magic We’re Real #3 (These Walls) by Jeannette Ehlers (2022) and Anadyomene by Phyllis Akinyi (2022) in the specific context of postcolonial Denmark. In what ways do these performances  resist, rupture and disrupt the everyday imminence of Black death in Northern Europe? How do these performances make us imagine ways of knowing that contend with the continuing legacies of colonialism and racist border violence?

>> To read more about Anika’s session go to the original seminar page >>

 “Change by Participatory Action Research: Chances and Challenges” – Jaswina Elahi (UU)

Jaswina Elahi’s seminar will orient Participatory Action Research, an approach that was introduced in 1944 by Kurt Lewin which seeks transformative change through the simultaneous process of taking action and doing research, linked together by critical reflection. One of the primary goals of PAR is to contribute to social change by addressing real issues that affect the community involved in the research. Jaswina Elahi applies this approach to contemporary societal issues that are often also politically charged, such as poverty and multiculturalism in society. Using some concrete examples from her work, in this presentation she will show where some of the greatest opportunities and challenges lie when working through PAR.

>> Find out more about Jaswina’s session on the original seminar page >>

Registration for this seminar will open in late August. These sessions were rescheduled from our Transmission in Motion seminar series (2023-2024): “Matters of Concern.”  To stay updated with more seminar sessions, please subscribe to our newsletter.