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**Para-Academia, Post-Disciplinary Communities, and Networked Scholarship** with Mohammad Salemy (The New Centre for Research and Practice), Abbey Pusz & Margo Bergamini (Do Not Research) Thursday August 25, 2PM EST Register free at https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApc-GprjsvEtLv06zchXn0byJCigzF2hME Communities of knowledge outside of any pedagogic establishment have multiplied exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic, in an explosion of online courses, collaborative syllabus, and self-directed study groups. This growth reflects not only an expansion of the possibilities offered by new communication technologies, but also a deeper crisis in academia. Universities became largely incapable of absorbing the very scholars and researchers they produce. All the while, fields like the humanities and social sciences struggle to stay relevant face increasingly complex political and cultural scenarios. Could networked scholarship represent a way to reanimate academia through more accessible, solidary, and, oftentimes, grounded forms of knowledge exchange? Or does it create dangerous precedents in times of rampant pseudoscience and fake news? To mark the transition into the Museums Without Walls online program, we will be discussing these questions with representatives of two exceptionally active para-academic platforms: The New Centre for Research & Practice and Do Not Research (DNR). The New Centre is an international, non-profit, higher education institute in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, conceived upon the idea that the space of knowledge is a laboratory for navigating the links between thought and action as well as critique and construction. Its pedagogical approach bootstraps the conventional role of the arts, humanities, sciences, and technologies to construct new forms of research and practice alongside, within, and between technology. DNR is a collaborative platform for publishing writing, visual art, and beyond. Launched in 2021, DNR emerged from artist Joshua Citarella’s online chat community of artists and those otherwise concerned with contemporary online visual culture. It started as a community-led reading group centered around Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, but soon encompassed a nexus of blog posts, artworks, and community workshops. DNR is edited, operated, and managed by co-directors Abbey Pusz and Margo Bergamini. */Museums Without Walls is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Queen’s University, Screen Cultures and Cultural Studies Program, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Visit museusemparedes.com/en <http://museusemparedes.com/en> or instagram.com/museusemparedes <http://instagram.com/museusemparedes> to keep track of the project's next activities./*
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