REBEKKA KIESEWETTER
2023
Un/Disciplining Reading Conference
University College Dublin (IRL)
Panel contribution Reading Differently: Towards Greater Knowledge Equity and Diversity in Scholarly Knowledge Production
Lunch & Learn Open Science
Universitätsbibliothek Zürich / Universität Zürich
Talk Scholar- und community-led Ansätze des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens
Feminist Publishing: Practices, Processes, and Contemporary Challenges
City College London (UK)
Talk A Leaky Consensus. Interrelating critical OA advocacy with (proto-)feminist grassroots publishing from the 17th century onwards
Conferencia Conjunta 4s/ESOCITE
Cholula (ME)
Panel Living Book Encounters: Experiments in Rewriting
La Publicación abierta como investigación-creación
With Janneke Adema, Gabriela Méndez Cota, & Sandra Loyola
Universidad Iberoamericana, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas, Ciudad de México (MX)
ECREA Women's Network
Online Roundtable
Challenging norms in academia; The potential of open access and alternative
forms of publishing for improving diversity and equality
OPEN-ACCESS-TAGE 2022
Bern (CH)
Session 11: Scholar-led Publishing; contribution "Scholar-led Open Access in den Geistes- und
Sozialwissenschaften: Akademische Selbstverwaltung, Kollaboration und Diversität in Publikationsprozessen"
(with Tobias Steiner)
VIDEO
UNBIND: REIMAGINING THE ACADEMIC MONOGRAPH
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), Cambridge (UK)
Panel Contribution "Re-Reading & the Politics of Excess and/as Accessibility"
(Panel Piracy & Radical OA, with Dr. Julia Rone & Dr. Samuel Moore)
2021
THE GLOBAL BOOK
SAS, Slade School of Art, Senate House, UCL, University of Dundee, Manchester School of Art
Roundtable Discussion & New Global Studies Special Issue CFP launch
A Part of the conference Spineless Wonders – Small Press Artists Books; The Global Book; Materials, Materiality and Process (online)
With Prof. Tom Mole (Durham University); Prof. Ashleigh Harris (Uppsala University); Dr Patrick Hart (COPIM project, and National Library of Scotland); co-curated and chaired by Dr Heather H. Yeung (University of Dundee): and Prof. Tim Brennan Slade (Manchester School of Art)
WHAT'S THE READING GROUP GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Royal College of Art (RCA), London (UK) (online)
Performative Talk
Talk / Slides
MIKRO-MACHTSTRUKTUREN SPRACHLICHEN STILS UND MIKRO-CHOREOGRAPHIEN (POST-)DIGITALEN AUSTAUSCHS IN DER (AKADEMISCHEN) WISSENSPRODUKTION
Kongress Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, ZHdK Zurich (CH) (online)
Panel contribution
Talk / Slides
CRISIS NARRATIVES IN OA PUBLISHING: AN IMPASSE?
CAA Conference 2021 (USA)
Conference paper, panel “Crisis and Invention: Digital Publishing after 2020”
Talk (video)
2020
INTERSEKTIONALE PERSPEKTIVEN: NEUE GENEALOGIEN FÜR KRITISCHES OA?
University of Berne (CH)
Conference paper, keynote
Open Access: Mehr Partizipation oder neue Ungleichheiten?
Talk / Slides
N.T.
ETH Zurich (CH)
Conference paper, panel contribution
Nach Open Access: Neue Formen wissenschaftlichen Publizierens
FEMINIST GENEALOGIES. RE-PERFORMING THE ANCESTRY LINES OF OA PUBLISHING
CSA 2020 Conference Chicago (USA) on Bodily Sovereignties and Collective Action
Conference paper, panel "Critical Knowledge Sovereignties"
Talk
2019
INTERSECTIONALITY & OA
University of Berne (CH)
Conference paper, workshop
Digitale Transformation & Geschlecht
FIELDING ARCHITECTURE: FEMINIST PRACTICE FOR A DECOLONISED PEDAGOGY
Symposium, Panel
This paper aims to rethink where, by whom and how thinking happens institutionally through and within publications. It discusses publishing as a frame for a reconciliation of institutional discrimination still present in academic environments, norms and canons, and is confronting the still advancing economisation and privatisation of knowledges. It postulates a scholarly knowledge production, circulation and reception that adheres to more (self-)critical, open and inclusive ethics and value systems and allows to continuously re-assess and re-negotiate the terms academia’s exclusivity is based on.
EXPERIMENTAL PUBLISHING – CRITIQUE, INTERVENTION, AND SPECULATION
Symposium Talk
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University (UK)
Exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing as an ongoing critique, an affirmative and speculative practice.
For full talk and slides: TEXT, SLIDES
CRITICAL FORMS FOR A COLLECTIVE PEDAGOGY
Talk
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (CZ)
Publishing as pedagogical frame and critical instrument.
DILEMMA! DILEMMA!
Conference, Panel
Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB) MA Design
The politics of storytelling. On the constructedness and intransparency of visual narratives.
2018
VISITING EDITOR
Lectures
VI PER gallery Prague and PRAHA Forum for Architecture and Media Brno (CZ), curated by Maria Topolcanska
Against the background of a theory of performative materiality and the understanding of publishing as a procedural device framing spaces of multi-vocal exchange, sense-making and differential co-production, a new responsibility for critical publishers can be deducted: An administrative task that is not understood as a way of managing and controlling in accordance to prevailing (e.g. market or disciplinary) logics, but instead embraces notions of care, support, enabling, and maneuvering. This in order to challenge the conventions, premises and protocols by which knowledge is produced, mediated and received within and through publishing, and to allow alternative perspectives and trajectories to emerge.
For full talk and slides: TEXT, SLIDES
PUBLISHING IN ACADEMIC CONTEXTS
Panel discussion
With: Lucie Kolb, Tabea Lurk, Shintaro Miyazaki
Open Lab Days at Critical Media Lab (ixdm), HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
Can the discussion around academic open access be a chance to broaden the "horizons of the publishable"? Can publishing models, strategies and formats be developed that are able to accommodate, define, and mediate designerly and artistic ways of knowledge creation, and cater to the need for more transparent, accessible and democratic way of mediating information? Can publishing as an institution and industry be replaced by publishing as a larger material, social and performative practice? Can publishing as a set of processes and activities become a procedural device through which the conventions, premises and protocols by which knowledge is created, mediated and received through academic publishing, as well as the frames of thought, which have produced them in the first place can be challenged?
For full talk and slides: TEXT, SLIDES
PERFORMATIVE MATERIALITY & INTERFACES IN ARCHITECTURE
Panel discussion
"Displaying Cinematography: (Un-)Building Walls, Designing Architecture" during "Performing Architecture", Event series of Goethe Institute during the 16th Architecture Biennale Venice (IT)
With: Johanna Bruckner, Rebekka Kiesewetter, Marie-France Rafael, Christian Teckert, Clemens von Wedemeyer
Proposing a shift from a literal to a contingent and performative understanding of materiality and from a representational to a performative and interpretative concept of interface. What if architectural interfaces rather than representing and invoking orders, mechanisms, structures and processes to support the regime of architectural conventions, protocols, and architectural authorship would mobilize a critical network, a social space for putting into relation, for negotiation and co-production?
For full talk and slides: TEXT, SLIDES
PUBLISHING AS CRITICAL DESIGN PRACTICE
Conversation moderation
With: Dubravka Sekulic, Léopold Lambert & Francisco Laranjo
Swiss Design Network Symposium "Beyond Change", HGK FHNW Basel (CH)
Pursuing publishing as a critical design practice does not only mean to look at the topics that one writes and publishes about, but also asks for a critical engagement with the media and ways in which publications are produced, distributed and received, and with the standpoints, perspectives and platforms that allow for a meaningful and potentially transformative critique.
2017
ABC OF FORMATS
Lecture
Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Raumstrategien, Kiel (DE)
About formats as democratic interfaces on which disciplines – such as social sciences, humanities, politics, design and the arts – can converge. They presuppose a democratic relationship between different experiences, epistemes, knowledge systems, views or "truths;” they furthermore accommodate the individual backgrounds, “tempers” and ways of working, and as frames for critical practice and reflection.
2016
URGENT CITY TOWARDS A NEW VOCABULARY OF TERMS
Workshop & Panel
With Amateur Cities & New Generations, Florence (IT)
Discussing and practicing ways towards the New Vocabulary of Terms and a better cross-disciplinary understanding.
PUBLICATION AS PLATFORM
Roundtable
With Fictional Collective, Palazzo Clerici, Milan (IT)