Arts and culture
Building Other Forms of Communicating the Academy: Final Workshop
- Date
- Friday 23 May 2025
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- Address
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Anna van Buerenplein
Anna van Buerenplein 301
2595 DG The Hague
BOCA invites Leiden teaching staff and students to a final workshop on Friday May 23rd at Leiden University in The Hague to explore core questions to the project and our academic practice regarding effective ways of communicating knowledge. The workshop aims to provide a space for collective thinking and an opportunity to exchange experiences, ideas and expectations for more vital forms of communicating in the academy. We invite teaching colleagues, PhD candidates and postdocs, and students to share their experiences and ideas. If you are interested, please view the information below and send us your proposed contribution (approximately 300 words) along three to four lines about you to boca@hum.leidenuniv.nl by Thursday, May 1st 2025.
More information regarding the workshop schedule will follow soon on this page.
Guiding Questions at the Core of the Workshop
What problems do we face to communicate academic knowledge (within and beyond the university)?
What alternative forms of communicating scholarship can contribute to enhance the university's role as a force for societal change?
What alternative forms of knowledge production, dissemination, teaching exist already in our teaching and research practices (e.g. performative and experiential forms of knowledge, such as multilingual and embodied approaches)?
About BOCA
The BOCA project explores new forms of communicating academic knowledge as a way to strengthen the connection between the university and society. The project was awarded a Kiem seed grant and is led by Daniela Vicherat Mattar (FGGA/LUC) and Nanne Timmer (FGw/LUCAS).
BOCA combines research expertise in the humanities (arts, linguistics, literature) and social sciences (anthropology, sociology) to unsettle dominant practices of academic knowledge production and dissemination, such as linguistic nationalism, socially hierarchies, and those defined by disembodied and mostly written forms. We intervene in the University space to nurture other forms of communicating academic knowledge, and in so doing contribute to positive transformation of the university as a force for societal change across borders.
Learn more by visiting the project website.