Convergence 2012: The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation

Convergence 2012 bringes together graduate students, professors, artists, and activists to think through diverse events of radical mobilization, from student protests and occupations to uprisings and insurrections. We will discuss different forms of embodiment that have developed around the reclaiming of public space, and the demand for economic, social and political change. We will question the instrumentalization of technology as strategies of communication, organization and revolution. Generating a space to discuss contemporary notions of emancipation, liberation, revolution, occupation, geopolitics, "artivism," and militant research, we will bring into dialogue the lived intensions of these concepts as they are enacted bodies, in knowledge production, and in physical locations.