Conference | BOCA Workshop
Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
- Date
- Thursday 25 September 2025
- Time
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 2.34
Today’s academia urgently needs alternative forms of (re)connection to overcome fragmentation- disciplinary, institutional, linguistic, generational, interpersonal. The BOCA workshop responds to this need by exploring embodied forms to subvert fragmentation, seeking alternatives of con/tact that move from the body to the classroom (and not the other way around). Join us!
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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.