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TECHNE PhDs Hybrid Symposium: Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity

Fri 12 Jun 2026 9:45 AM - 5:30 PM JG1002, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, KT1 2EE

TECHNE PhDs Hybrid Symposium: Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity

Fri 12 Jun 2026 9:45 AM - 5:30 PM JG1002, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, KT1 2EE


Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83349061189?pwd=1ajynesIxhubU3abIkZMi6mYGdvEZJ.1

Meeting chat link
https://us06web.zoom.us/launch/jc/83349061189

Meeting ID: 833 4906 1189
Passcode:
130885

Programme:
9:30 – 10:00 – Arrival
10:00 – 11:15 – 1st Keynote:
Brigitte Hart (Sound artist)
"Technologies of Sensitivity: Voice, Rivers, Remnants and Radio Relics" (online performance/presentation)
11:15 – 11:30 – Short Break
11:30 – 12:30 – 1st Panel (Chair: Aleksei Ziniuk)
Christian Frigerio (PhD, University of Milan)
"An Ecology of Fragility: Bruno Latour and Gaia’s Politics" (online presentation)
Tiger Liu (PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Kingston University)
"Whoever Speaks of Fragility Speaks of Insurance as well"
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 – 2nd Panel (Chair: Maxim Spivakov)
Serena Massimo (Postdoc, the Alliance Paris Lumières, Centre de Recherches

Pluridisciplinaires et Multilingues (CRPM), Paris Nanterre University)
“Fragility as a Paradigm of Dwelling: Italy’s Inner Areas between Crisis, Discomfort and Portance”
Dr. Deniz Yenimazman (Independent Researcher; PhD, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design)
“Fragility, Individuation, and the Cosmotechnical Conditions of Research” (online presentation)
14:30-14:45 – Short Break
14:45 -15:45:
Anca-Maria Pop in conversation with Julia Schauerman (open discussion)
15:45-16:00 – Short Break
16:00-17:15 – 2nd Keynote:
Andrew Goffey (University of Nottingham)
Title: tba


Organising Committee: Aleksei Ziniuk (Philosophy, Kingston University), Maxim Spivakov (Royal

Holloway), Julia Schauerman (University of Arts London), Anca-Maria Pop (Royal Holloway)

Location

JG1002, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, KT1 2EE