PGR Workshop - Unsettling Research: Dialogic Tools for Engaged Inquiry

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Bibiana Oliveira Serpa delivers a workshop for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) -

This 90-minute workshop offers a reflective exercise on politically engaged research, using the (Anti)Dialogic Cards — a visual and poetic tool designed by Latin American researchers to unsettle dominant practices and foster critical dialogue. Developed within the Design and Oppression Network, the cards draw on Paulo Freire's and Latin American traditions of activist inquiry. The session invites participants to explore tensions, contradictions, and desires within their research practices. Rather than presenting fixed methods, the cards provoke questions around power, care, and positionality. Through small-group conversations based on selected cards, participants will engage in collective reflection, opening space for political imagination, shared discomfort, and a rethinking of the researcher’s role in co-creating knowledge with and from social struggles. The session is particularly relevant for doctoral researchers interested in participatory, collective, or politically committed research.

Arrivals from 12:45pm for a 1:00pm start.

This event is in-person only, please use the booking button below to confirm your in-person attendance.
(Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for the space in the seminar room)

By booking a place at this event, attendees agree to behave in a respectful manner such that everyone feels comfortable contributing as they wish. The IAS reserves the right to eject anyone who does not abide by this policy.