TiM Seminar 2025-2026

“Navigating Entanglements”

During the final session of last year’s TiM seminar on “Implicatedness”, Maria Hlavajova spoke about the complex nature of institutions as both restricting and enabling. Organizations and social and cultural systems impose things through rules, sanctions, social control, and informal norms. On the other hand, institutions provide the laws and regulations to fight injustice and can make material and discursive space for what is oppressed or threatened elsewhere. Hjavajova’s observations point to the complexity of understanding and navigating such entanglements as a crucial question for critical theory and practice today. This year’s seminar draws on these observations to inspire a series of reflections on navigating entanglements in today’s world. How are institutions a blend of power as potestas and as potentia, to speak in Spinozist language? How are the authoritative potestas and the resisting potentia mobilized for (questioning) truth, power, creativity?

This year’s seminar will take place at different locations.
The first session will take place at Drift 13, room 005 (Utrecht).
The second session will take place at Munstraat 2A, Foyer (Utrecht).
The following ones will take place at the Grote Zaal of the department of Media & Culture of Utrecht University (Muntstraat 2a, Utrecht).

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TiM Seminar Programme (2025-2026)

Credit Requirements

Like in past years and in collaboration with NICA (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis) we offer students the option to acquire credits (3ECTS) by contributing to our seminar series “Navigating Entanglements” in the form of blogposts or documentation (400-500 words) for 5 out of 7 sessions.

For more information, please contact us at tim@uu.nl and feel free to check out past student past student blogposts and documentation on our website.