This seminar takes as its starting point a curiosity about how language can function both as a limitation and as a space of possibility—as a tool for drawing boundaries through distinguishing, defining, diagnosing, but also for transmitting, imagining otherwise, and communicating across individual experiences. These questions will be discussed by Christoffer Fehsenfeld from the communications agency Nossell & Co.; Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø, Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark; and Sidsel Nelund, PhD, curator and writer.

Taking inspiration from critical disability studies and crip studies’ critique of dominant expectations of what constitutes a functional and good life—and motivated by a desire to create communities grounded in shared experiences of marginalization in relation to dominant norms—the seminar will explore experiences of linguistic resistance, as well as the spaces of linguistic possibility that can emerge through new forms of identification and inquiry.

Please note: The seminar is held in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen and will take place at Søndre Campus, Building 27, Room 17 (Karen Blixens Vej 8, 2300 Copenhagen: https://hum.ku.dk/uddannelser/studiestart/findvej) – not at O — Overgaden.

The symposium is organized by Anne Kølbæk Iversen as part of the research project Crip Time: Art of Impairment, Withdrawal, and Impatience, hosted by the Department of Art History, University of Copenhagen, and O—Overgaden, and supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation.