Conference Dates:

12^th to 15^th June 2025 Deleuze & Guattari Studies Camp

17^th to 19^th June 2025 Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference

Opening for submissions: 1st of October 2024. APPLY HERE

Abstracts Due: 31^st of January 2025

Notification of acceptence: will be announced after deadline, 31^st of January 2025

The International Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference and Camp 2025 welcomes you to Konstfack – the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden! We have chosen the conference theme Pedagogies of Philosophy: Nonsense, and…and…and joy to focus on the affirmative affects and challenging problems that the philosophies of Deleuze & Guattari make possible. We invite you to contribute to this event in ways that activate philosophy as a practice and center attention on philosophy as a pedagogical act of making sensible and arousing the senses. Together we aim to follow the movements, affects and politics of thought and learning. To use language, as philosophy teaches us to do, is to enclose movement in a body relative to the cartographic coordinates of a milieu. The body is compelled to act and it does so across a spectrum of continuous variation between passive affects and active ones. Without the body, movement remains virtual, awaiting processes of actualization. How can we explore the ethico-politics, as Félix Guattari calls it (1992), of philosophy, pedagogy and…and…and…a life? How can we explore affects and joys while still nurturing the need for what Donna Haraway calls a responsable ethics?

The transversality of the concept of and…and…and…invites an immanent thinking and doing from the midst of things. The process is wildly contingent, because “we do not know what a body can do”, as Gilles Deleuze argues in dialogue with Spinoza (1988). We aspire to find ways of opening onto multiplicities of ands…ands…ands…where we can begin to reformulate the sensible and what makes sense. We argue that we must break with the doxa, with habit, opinion, and cliché. Together we must venture a new image of thought so that we can collectively cope on this damaged planet.

We especially invite work-in-progress and a practical and artistic engagement with philosophy, the courage – and joy – of engaging in approaches that surprise us. Following the zigzag of lightning that Deleuze posits as ‘the event’, we chase generative and transformative affects that promise to shape and mold, fold and unfold, space-time anew. Reading Deleuze in Difference and Repetition, we find an invitation to engage in new ways of knowing, learning, and thinking – an invitation to imagine the missing people, the community to come. As Guattari and Deleuze develop their collaborative and joyful friendship, the question that persists is: What does it mean to think together? What missing peoples must we make room for, and, more importantly, learn from? What emergent assemblages are needed? How do they work? How can we practice with them? How and who do we discover ourselves becoming when we undertake this important work?

The question of politics is also crucial here, because there is so much at stake in processes of living, in a life. How can we, in the words of Florelle D’Hoest and Tyson E. Lewis, find ways to “study between” those encounter that entangle lives, disciplines, and practices? How can pedagogies and philosophies become ways of living life as “complete power, complete beatitude” as Deleuze urges in his late essay, “Immanence: A Life…”? This beatitude, the joy of a life, is always everywhere and inbetween moments. It does not simply reside in you or in me. It is you and you…and you….and…me on a wild witch’s ride of becoming. It is not simply a ‘happy face’, but the force of transformative politics. It is openness onto a transversality of thinking, acting, and experiencing a life, inviting in those who share life with us, and those with whom we can share a flourishing life. It is about caring for the living and maintaining a solidarity with life in all its heterogeneity.

Today, our world is dominated by a vocabulary of crises, war, environmental devastation, and ressentiment. How can we engage with philosophy, art, and education to recover from these passive sadnesses? How can we challenge the hegemonic center and make possible lines of flight, of leakage, of nonsense? It is the imperative of freedom: For all living entities, to live a life of freedom and…and…and joy.

We welcome proposals from all fields of academic inquiry including creative practice-based research such as:

• Panel Proposals

(Panels of three presenters)

1.5 hours

• Speculative Workshops

60 mins

• Performance Lectures

30 minutes

• Poster Presentations

You will be allotted a space for mounting your poster (A3 Landscape). A schedule for attending posters will be curated so participants can ask and answer questions.

• Artistic Contributions

Konstfack aims to facilitate the inclusion of a variety of artistic modes of expressions. Artists needs to take responsibility for the availability of technical specifications in consultation with the conference organisers.

• Declaration of interest to take part in Mini-Symposium

Your abstract should contain a brief description of your research interest, concepts and problems explored, as well as methods and materials. The group talk will have 60 minutes available for a chaired conversation and will be curated by the organizers. At admission you will be placed in a group of 3-4 persons with a chair that will contact you for preparations beforehand.

1.5 hours.

• Physical Activation

We invite site-based interventions that explore bodily movement and sharing. This might also relate to a proposed artistic contribution.

• Other
  

Abstracts Due, Conference

We ask you to submit a 2-page abstract:

On Page 1:

Include your name(s), the title of your proposal, and a 100 word biographical statement(s).

On Page 2:

Include the title of your proposal, and a 200–300-word abstract. Where relevant include images. If further descriptions are required of your proposal, please make sure these are all included on one page. Do not include your name (as we will undertake peer review).

Abstracts Due, Camp

Deleuze and Guattari Camp Applications

We kindly ask students and scholars interested in the Deleuze and Guattari Camp to submit a brief letter of intent via our website. The letter of intent is to be approximately 300 words long. We also need a short bio with institutional details of up to 150 words. 

Please note that we have a limited number of 40 spots available for the camp. If the camp if already full, applicants will be placed on a waiting list and contacted of any openings as soon as possible.