TiM Seminar 2025-2026
Transmission in Motion Seminar (2025-2026):
“Navigating Entanglements”
During the final session of last year’s TiM seminar on “Implicatedness”, Maria Hlavajova spoke about the complex nature of institutions as both restricting and enabling. Organizations and social and cultural systems impose things through rules, sanctions, social control, and informal norms. On the other hand, institutions provide the laws and regulations to fight injustice and can make material and discursive space for what is oppressed or threatened elsewhere. Hjavajova’s observations point to the complexity of understanding and navigating such entanglements as a crucial question for critical theory and practice today. This year’s seminar draws on these observations to inspire a series of reflections on navigating entanglements in today’s world. How are institutions a blend of power as potestas and as potentia, to speak in Spinozist language? How are the authoritative potestas and the resisting potentia mobilized for (questioning) truth, power, creativity?
This year’s seminar will take place at different locations.
The first two session will take place at Drift 13, room 005 (Utrecht).
The following ones will take place at the Grote Zaal of the department of Media & Culture of Utrecht University (Muntstraat 2a, Utrecht).
Locations marked with an asterisk * are in the process of being confirmed.
If you would like to stay up to date with TiM Seminar 2025-2026 and other TiM events, you can subscribe to our newsletter. Like in past years and in collaboration with NICA (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis) we offer students the option to acquire credits (3ECTS) by contributing to our seminar series “Navigating Entanglements” in the form of blogposts or documentation (400-500 words) for 5 out of 8 sessions. For more information, please contact us at tim@uu.nl and feel free to check out past student past student blogposts and documentation on our website. Unknown. A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. (Source: Wellcome Collection)
“Frogs and Clowns: An Object Orientation of Protest Today”
Anneke Jansen (Theatre Programming, SPOT Groningen) and Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University)
“Theater, Moon Studies, and Interplanetary Entanglements”
Felipe Cervera (UCLA), Vivian Appler (University of Georgia), and Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University)
Title to be announced, on institutionalizing differently
Anne Breure (Artistic Director Theater Utrecht) in dialogue with Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink (Utrecht University) and Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University)
Title to be announced
Lars Ebert (Culture Action Europe)
“Humor and Truth-telling”
Dick Zijp (Utrecht University)
“From As if to What if”
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink (Utrecht University) and Sigrid Merx (Utrecht University)
Title and speakers to be announcedCredit Requirements
