Wadham Symposium: Margins

Dates

8 February 2025

Times

10am

Location

Seminar Rooms 4 & 5

Summary

All Wadham students are invited to attend the College's annual Symposium on the theme of MARGINS.

Wadham Symposium: MARGINS

This annual interdisciplinary symposium invites exploration of boundaries—intellectual, social, and cultural—and the potential found at the edges. Participants will consider how marginalized voices challenge norms, how margins function as spaces of resistance, and how the boundaries between center and periphery are negotiated. Presentations from undergraduates, postgraduates, professors, and fellows will spark diverse and stimulating conversations, both in formal sessions and informal exchanges over coffee, lunch, and dinner. The event, generously subsidized by the College and the Students' Union, will foster a vibrant intellectual community, offering a chance to engage deeply with ideas and colleagues. A modest contribution of £15.00 will cover the cost of refreshments, including lunch and a special 3-course dinner with wine. It promises to be a highlight of the academic year, full of lively dialogue and intellectual exploration.

Numbers are limited to 50. Wadham students should contact Norman Aselmeyer to register and inform him of any dietary requirements.

Programme

10.00 – Welcome and coffee/tea

10.30–12.00: Session 1: The Politics of Margins

William Parry (TBD)

Christyn Refuerzo, “Margins as Framed by an English Student: Resistance through Discourse”

Edmund Herzig, “Margins and Centres: Locating Armenians in Early Modern Iran”

12.00 – Lunch

1.00–2.30 pm: Session 2: Inhabiting the Margins

Jacob Bird (TBD)

Alessandra Alosi, “Margins of the Mind: Neglected Theories on the Cusp of the Modern”

Ewemiz Insigne, “Centering the South: Shifting towards Perspectives from the Global South in Critical Technology Studies”

2.30 – Tea/coffee

3.00-4.30: Session 3: Margins as Method

Stephan Rauschenbach, “The Thermodynamics behind Orwell’s ‘Road to Wigan Pier’”

Sydney Robinson, “‘Science’: Denaturalizing Progress Narratives by Studying the Non- and Pseudoscientific”

Yevhen Yashchuk, “Provincializing the Centralized Margins: How to Approach the Past of Recent Nation-States?”

4.30 – Break

4.45 – Drinks

6.00 – Dinner in Hall

Wadham Symposium 2025

Margins

Programme

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