Conferences and workshops

Esoteric ritual or ceremonial discourse forms are widely encountered among the Indigenous peoples ofSouth and Central America, and often differ markedly from everyday speech in their delivery (e.g. chant orsong), discursive structure, lexicon, and grammar. These discursive variations have important implicationsfor our understanding of the South/Central American linguistic landscape and its cultural and historicalcontexts, as well as for a deeper appreciation of Indigenous approaches to verbal art. This workshopexplores these esoteric discourse forms and the dynamics of linguistic manipulation that they exhibit, withan eye to understanding the structure and sources of deviant forms, their aesthetic and enactive functions,their relevance to processes of contact and change, and other considerations.

This scientific event will focus on the notion of agentivity, understood as the "power to act". It will analyse individual choices in a constrained context, taking into account the influence of social structures on agency. A feminist approach will focus on women's forms of resistance in the face of multiple oppressions, and the spaces and modalities in which this resistance is exercised, both at the individual and collective level.

The workshop is to bring together established and young scholars from political philosophy and political theory on the question of how to respond to the contemporary challenges Western democracies are facing.

This research workshop is organised by Alberto Frigo (Università degli Studi di Milano), visiting researcher at the Collegium as part of his collaboration with IHRIM and Labex COMOD.

This workshop is co-organized by the Hub “Post-Western Sociology” and Research Field “Policies of Knowledge” of the Triangle laboratory.