From September 16-18, the Impossible Projects Working Group will host an interdisciplinary symposium titled “Embracing Contradictions.” For scholars, artists, activists and community members working and living in a world that is in crisis, it often seems like we are stretched between contradictions difficult or impossible to reconcile. This symposium explores how to work within contradictions and the messy in-between spaces they can create in ways that provide resistance to dominant power structures. This is the fourth symposium of the Impossible Projects Working Group, which formed in 2016 for interdisciplinary conversations about ethical and political challenges in work related to violence, inequities, and social justice.
The upcoming symposium welcomes fifteen speakers from institutions across the US-Canada border. Along with presentations from visiting scholars, over a dozen Clarkson faculty members across the departments of Humanities and Social Sciences, Communications and Media, and Psychology will present research and lead discussions and workshops. A program is available here.
The symposium will take place at the Adirondack Lodge and is open to interested faculty, staff, and students. Numbers are limited due to space constraints. If you would like to participate, please register here by Friday September 9.
This event has been generously sponsored by a David A. Walsh ’67 Arts and Sciences Mini-Conference Grant, the Clarkson School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Diversity and Inclusion Office, the Ignite program, and the Concordia University School of Community and Public Affairs.
It is organized by faculty across the Humanities and Social Sciences, Communication and Media, and Psychology:
- Steven Pedersen, Department of Communications, Media and Design, Clarkson University
- Liz Pienkos, Department of Psychology, Clarkson University
- Lisa Propst, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Clarkson University
- Anna Sheftel, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University
Contact: Lisa Propst: lpropst@clarkson.edu, x2335