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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000">with Mohammad Salemy (The New Centre for Research and Practice), Abbey Pusz & Margo Bergamini (Do Not Research)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000">Communities of knowledge outside of any pedagogic establishment have multiplied exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic, in an explosion of online courses, collaborative syllabus,
 and self-directed study groups. This growth reflects not only an expansion of the possibilities offered by new communication technologies, but also a deeper crisis in academia. Universities became largely incapable of absorbing the very scholars and researchers
 they produce. All the while, fields like the humanities and social sciences struggle to stay relevant face increasingly complex political and cultural scenarios. Could networked scholarship represent a way to reanimate academia through more accessible, solidary,
 and, oftentimes, grounded forms of knowledge exchange? Or does it create dangerous precedents in times of rampant pseudoscience and fake news?</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000">To mark the transition into the
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-style:italic">Museums Without Walls
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000">online program, we will be discussing these questions with representatives of two exceptionally active para-academic platforms:
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-style:italic">The New Centre for Research & Practice</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000"> and
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-style:italic">Do Not Research
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</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-style:italic">The New Centre
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000">is an international, non-profit, higher education institute in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, conceived upon the idea that the space of knowledge is a laboratory for navigating
 the links between thought and action as well as critique and construction. Its pedagogical approach bootstraps the conventional role of the arts, humanities, sciences, and technologies to construct new forms of research and practice alongside, within, and
 between technology. DNR is a collaborative platform for publishing writing, visual art, and beyond. Launched in 2021, DNR emerged from artist Joshua Citarella’s online chat community of artists and those otherwise concerned with contemporary online visual
 culture. It started as a community-led reading group centered around Mark Fisher’s
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-style:italic">Capitalist Realism</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000">, but soon encompassed a nexus of blog posts, artworks,
 and community workshops. DNR is edited, operated, and managed by co-directors Abbey Pusz and Margo Bergamini.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size:12pt">/Museums Without Walls is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council</span><span style="font-size:12pt">, Queen’s University, Screen Cultures and Cultural Studies Program, and the
 Agnes Etherington Art Centre</span><span style="font-size:12pt">.</span><span><span style="font-size:12pt"> Visit <a href="http://museusemparedes.com/en" target="_blank">museusemparedes.com/en</a> or <a href="http://instagram.com/museusemparedes">instagram.com/museusemparedes</a> to keep track of the project's next activities./<br></span></span></i></p>
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