We hope that all of you got the rest you needed in the dark December days and have a beginning of 2022 which fits your vision.
In ETHOS, we will have a year with a lot of changes and glance ahead with a sense of cultivated optimism. In December, Marisa Cohn did a tarot reading session for the Lab to bring in some magic intention setting for the new year. The reading sharped our focus towards nurturing our own community and what we need to direct energy to: building solidarity within academia, seeing our own power, addressing overwork, how to center life, and make sense of the Lab’s activities in a fundamental way.
To this end, we already begun this year’s theme in December, as we in 2022 will be working on “Embodied (re)enchantment”. We are ready to feel more energetic, touched, moved, surprised, excited, in touch with different political and academic streams, and thinking around Embodied (re)enchantment we will bring us to center our bodies, what is alive and what feels urgent.
We play around with the new machines in the Lab: a 3D Printer and an embroidery machine, to think about and create materializations of data in creative ways. Not at least to learn how to work with them. If you have fun ideas about how to do a workshop with data materialization or could see yourself do a project involving these machines, reach out!
The new year is also offering changes in staff. There will be a circulation amongst the Heads of Lab, where Jessamy Perriam will step in and steer the lab along with Marisa Cohn in Spring and with Rachel Douglas-Jones in Fall. This circulation provides the Heads of Lab with some rest from management considerations and give them space to attend to other matters and bring in new energy and new ways of meeting administrative troubles and give the lab direction.
Our Lab Manager Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding has gotten the opportunity to do a PhDat AU on convicted women’s experiences of crime and social policies and their wishes for alternative approaches and will therefore be leaving ETHOS managing by the end of January, to return on events and workshops with us.
On Thursday, January 20th 11.00-12.00, we will actually host an event on how to apply for Open PhD calls, going into the matter of critical reading and how to spot what the call wants you to be clear on.
We hope you will join us this year and get enchanted!
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Co-heads of Lab: Marisa Cohn & Rachel Douglas-Jones
Lab Manager: Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding
