COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter'.
Here you will find background material, current activities, calls for papers, working group information, and project outputs.
With the changing of societies on local, national and international scales owing to economic, ecological, political and technological developments and crises, a reorganized academic landscape can be observed to be emerging. Scholarship strives to become increasingly interdisciplinary in order to grasp and examine the unfolding complexity of ongoing ecological, socio-cultural and politico-economic changes. Additionally, academics forge... Read more or find out Who's Who
News
- Call for Papers - Technology Matters and Matters of Technology: Exploring Theories of "Materiality" for Technology Research - June 25, 2018 CFP Deadline × 13 April 2018
- The return of materialism(s)? Matter between science, theory and art - University of Iceland Event × 13 April 2018
- Call for Entries - New Materialism Almanac 2018 Deadline × 15 March 2018
- Urban Matters: Material Engagements with Communities and Borders in Times of Movement CFP Deadline × 15 January 2018
- Call for Papers: Antennae: Matter Matters CFP Deadline × 01 December 2017
- 4th New Materialist TS - Barcelona Training School × 20 - 22 Nov 2017
- Call for Papers - New Materialism Encountering Methodologies CFP Deadline × 15 November 2017
- Call for abstracts – Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies Deadline × 29 September 2017
- Society for the Study of Bio-Political Futures - New Materialist Concepts Call for Abstracts × 21 September 2017
- 4th New Materialist Training School, Barcelona Program × 20 – 22 Nov, 2017
- Call for Proposals - Special issue of Philosophy Today on “New Materialist Concepts” CFP Deadline × 01 September 2017
- Call for Abstracts (special issue proposal): “Materiality-Critique-Transformation” Call for Abstracts × 21 July 2017
- New book series: Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences now accepting book proposals Launch × 12 June 2017
- 8th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms - Paris Conference × 7 - 9 June 2017
- The Place of the Political in Critical Feminist Materialisms CFP Deadline × 31 May 2017
- Plantarium: Re-Imagining Green Futurities CFP Deadline × 10 April 2017
- Call for applications for STSM's Deadline × 31 March 2017
- Robot Love CFP Deadline × 01 March 2017
- Genders 2.1: Gendering PostNature CFP Deadline × 15 February 2017
- Conference: Emerging Activity. Relating Things Registration × 31 January 2017
- Balkan Cinema on the Crossroads: From Nitrate to Digital CFP Deadline × 25 January 2017
- Toxic Embodiment CFP Deadline × 15 January 2017
- Bridging Gender Research and Policy Making: CFP Deadline × 09 January 2017
Activities
Information relating to activities undertaken, including conferences, training schools, short-term scientific missions, and annual meetings, are archived here.
- 7th Annual Conference: Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, Vulnerability Conference × 21-23 Sept 2016
- From Cosmos to Genes: New Materialist Methodologies Crossing the Humanities, Natural, and Technosciences Training School × 23-26 Aug 2016
- MC Meetings: Barcelona, Maribor and Warsaw Other × 01 August 2016
- Training School 2: Research Genealogies and Material Practices Training School × 27-29 May 2016
- WG Meetings Other × 16 May 2016
- 6th Annual Conference - New Materialist Politics and Economies of Knowledge Conference × 2–4 Oct 2015
- VI Annual Conference - Transversal Practices: Matter, Ecology and Relationality Conference × 27-29 Sept 2015
- Short Term Scientific Missions STSM × 01 September 2015
- Training School 1 - Experience and Resonance Training School × 23–26 Oct 2014
- 5th Annual Conference - New Materialist Methodologies: Gender, Politics, the Digital Conference × 25–26 Sept 2014
- 4th Annual Conference - Movement, Aesthetics, Ontology Conference × 16-17 May 2013
- 3rd Annual Conference - Entanglements of New Materialisms Conference × 25-26 May 2012
- 2nd Annual Conference - New Materialism: Naturecultures Conference × 07 April 2011
- Ist Annual Conference - New Materialisms and Digital Culture Conference × 21 June 2010
Working Groups
Working Groups focus on four key areas of research
Working Group One
Genealogies of New Materialisms; examines and intervenes in canonization processes by compiling a web-based bibliography, coordinating the OST 068/13 8 EN... Read more
Working Group Two
New Materialisms on the Crossroads of the Natural and Human Sciences; seeks to develop new materialisms at the boundaries of the human and natural sciences. The group focuses on how European new materialisms can rework the ‘Two Cultures' gap... Read more
Working Group Three
New Materialisms Embracing the Creative Arts; brings together European researchers, artists, museum professionals, and other activists with a keen interest in the material... Read more
Working Group Four
New Materialisms Tackling Economical and Identity – Political Crises and Organizational Experiments... Read more
Outputs
- Ethics of Coding - A Report on the Algorithmic Condition (2018) WG1 × 2018
- Aesthetic Intra-Actions RUUKKO, Nr 9, March 2018 WG3 × 2018
- International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, Vol 9, No 2 - Special Issue WG2 × 2017
- the minnesota review: New Materialist Genealogies WG1 × 2017
- Studies in Material Thinking - Special Issue WG3 × 2016
- Cultural Studies Review Vol. 21, No. 2 WG1|WG3|WG4 × 2015
- Issue no. 14 of Artnodes WG1|WG4 × 2014
- New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies WG1 × 2012
Almanac
2016–18
The Almanac comprises contributions from members of working groups, and participants in related activities, delineating key terms, more esoteric neologisms, and short provocations. Read more
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COST Action IS1307
New Materialism —
Networking European Scholarship on 'How matter comes to matter’
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