MWP - Multidisciplinary Research Workshop
This workshop explores how minority studies have reshaped knowledge production, institutional structures, and the broader landscape of academic research. We understand minority studies broadly as fields and research practices that centre the lives, experiences, and epistemological perspectives of social minorities — defined not by numbers, but by relations of power. Bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds, identities, and disciplines, the workshop engages with Romani studies, Dalit studies, intersex studies, Palestine Studies, postcolonial gender studies, and disability studies, while recognising that this is an ever-expanding field.
A central concern of the event is the movement of voices from the margins to the centre of academic and political discourse, and the implications this shift holds for their authenticity, autonomy, and transformative potential.
The works will also examine the current state of the diverse strands of minority studies represented in the workshop. At the heart of this discussion lies a key tension: the changing role of the community, which is the lifeblood of these fields. Speakers are invited to reflect collectively on structural violence, as well as the redistribution of labour and burden, and to consider the effects of declining institutional support — across universities and both public and private sectors — on these disciplines. What are the consequences for the scholars who sustain and inhabit them? And how might such rollbacks affect recent processes of democratisation within these fields? The workshop is structured around three panel discussions featuring invited speakers from across minority studies.
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