Skepsi Postgraduate Conference 2026: "Unmuting"
About this Event
Silence is never neutral. Voices may be muted through structures of power, disciplinary boundaries, linguistic limitations, or historical erasure. At the same time, acts of unmuting raise ethical and methodological questions: who speaks, for whom, and under what conditions? Unmuting seeks to foster dialogue on how silences are produced, sustained, contested, or transformed, and how attention to silence can reshape critical practice.
This interdisciplinary conference invites early-career researchers, including doctoral students and postdocs, to reflect on practices of unmuting across ecological, linguistic, cultural, and political contexts, fostering dialogue around key issues in silence, voicelessness and representation with particular attention to marginalised forms of knowledge, ecological discourse and identity. The day will also feature a development panel on the topic of publishing in journals.
The conference will take place in-person on Thursday 10th September 2026. It is organised by Louise Wigglesworth, Amy Bergman, Beth Waldock and Qiujing Fan, the co-editors of Skepsi, and will be hosted at the Language Centre, University of Kent.
Full programme forthcoming — this page will be updated when it is available.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 10.00
