21 May | World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

Open Invitation | Pedagogies of Disaster - continent. conference 2013

PEDAGOGIES OF DISASTER /// A CONTINENT. CONFERENCE

June 6-8, 2013  Tirana, Albania

“Pedagogies of Disaster is organized to address the fate of relation and the future of pedagogical practice in the University, and especially as it concerns the humanities. We seek to address the infrastructural or interpersonal changes in the modes of production as it relates to current academia. Through this conference we aim to examine the elements and spaces of the rifts opening up in the polis of the University—its students, professors and administrators. Through two general, though not mutually exclusive, topics—Teaching and Being Taught—we desire to address the pedagogical horizon at a critical limit. We ask for whom or for what are we teaching and we ask from whom or from what are we learning?”

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Registration Deadline: May 6, 2013

Location: National Historical Museum 

Contributors:

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei studied classical composition, linguistics, conceptual art, and philosophy in the Netherlands, US, and Switzerland, where he received his PhD at the European Graduate School. He currently studies at the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen. He teaches philosophy at the University of New York in Tirana, Albania, and art theory and politics at the Royal Academy of the Arts, The Hague, Netherlands. Vincent is contributing editor of continent. journal and founder of publishing house Uitgeverij, and published Follow Us or Die (Atropos, 2009; with Jonas Staal) and The Old Nubian Miracle of Saint Mina (Uitgeverij, 2012; with El-Shafie El-Guzuuli). www.vangervenoei.com

Agon Hamza will soon defend his PhD in philosophy on Hegel and Althusser at the university of Ljubljana. He is a co-founder and a member of Dialectical Materialism Collective in Prishtina, Kosovo. Hamza is the author of Louis Althusser (Prishtina: KMD, 2011), co-editor of Ese të Zgjedhura, by Slavoj Žižek (Prishtina: DKS, 2009), and an editor of Për Althusserin (Prishtina: KMD, 2012). Currently, he is working on an edited volume on Žižek. His latest publication is a co-authored book with Slavoj Žižek, entitled From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo (Prishtina: KMD, 2013).

and a lot more.. for a full list go here.

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“READING ON DISASTER” INTERVENTION 

May 27 - June 5, 2013

Free and open to all participants and Albanian students.

The conference Pedagogies of Disaster will be preceded by an intervention organized by Austrian artist and curator Katharina Stadler, engaging with the educational situation in Albania and resulting in a manifesto.

The intervention is supported by the European Cultural Foundation and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture.

For more info on the conference check out their website.

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Featured Exhibit | Art. 1 - LGBT Albania

Hapja e ekspozitës "Art. 1"

Opening of the exhibition "Art. 1"

13 Maj @18:00h // May 13 @6pm

Muzeu Historik Kombëtar // National Historical Museum

Tirana, AL

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Çdo vit, 17 maji festohet si Dita Ndërkombëtare Kundër Homofobisë, në përkujtim të heqjes së homoseksualitetit prej Klasifikimit Ndërkombëtar të Sëmundjeve të Organizatës Botërorë të Shëndetësisë më 17 maj 1990. Në mbarë botën kjo ditë kremtohet me ekspozita, manifestime dhe evente të tjera.

Këtë vit, Aleanca Kundër Diskriminimit të LGBT ka bashkëpunuar me Unstraight Museum (Muzeu Jostrejt) nga Suedia, falë mbështetjes së Institutit Suedez, për të organizuar dy javë aktivitetesh që rrethojnë ekspozitën e titulluar Art. 1 e cila do shfaqet në Muzeun Historik Kombëtar në Tiranë. Duke marrë nenin e parë të Deklaratës Universale të të Drejtave të Njëriut si pikënisje, Art. 1 dëshiron të jetë një hap i vogël në përpjekjen e stërgjatë për të siguruar të drejta të barabarta për të gjithë njerëzimin.

Kliko këtu për programin e plotë.

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Each year, May 17 is celebrated as the International Day Against Homophobia, in commemoration of the removal of homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization on May 17, 1990. All around the world this day is celebrated with exhibitions, manifestations, and other events.

This year, The Aliance Against Discriminion of LGBT has teamed up with The Unstraight Museum from Sweden, thanks to the support of the Swedish Institute, to organize two weeks of events around the exhibition entitled Art. 1, presented in The National Historical Museum in Tirana. Taking the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as its point of departure, Art. 1 wants to be a small step in the long struggle to secure equal rights for all mankind.

Go here for the full program.

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