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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"><b>Reimagining the democratic potentials of silence</b> - An international symposium; University of Oslo; 2324 September 2026</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">This two-day symposium reexamines democracy and citizenship by treating silence as an integral, rather than oppositional, feature of democratic culture.
Silence can disrupt, slow down, knit communities together, reveal limits, and induce reflection. The symposium, part of the Democracy of Silence research project, reexamines logocentric concepts voice, participation, freedom of speech by attending to the
political potential of silence (e.g. withdrawal, breaks, gaps, hesitations, disconnections, void, quietude, disaffection) to interrupt the status quo, create openings and make new things sayable, or unsayable, together.</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">The symposium gathers researchers, artists, designers, and practitioners across disciplines to think with, and against, the regimes of voice, visibility,
and engagement that have come to dominate contemporary democratic theory and digital culture alike. We are particularly interested in what silence does, refuses, holds, or opens in datafied societies: how silence fosters reflection, resists conformity, and
influences decision-making at the edges and inside of platforms, states, institutions, communities. The purpose is to get one step closer to understanding what a democracy of silence could look and feel like. That is, how can we reimagine the democratic potentials
of silence in a society that hinges on vocal ideals of citizenship? What politics emerges by embracing silence as a democratic value, rather than a threat?</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">The symposium will place emphasis on discussions, interaction and experiences rather than conventional paper presentations. Accepted contributors will
share a short pre-circulated contribution in advance, and the symposium itself will be devoted to working through these together, across panels, listening sessions, walks, and informal exchanges. Our hope is to leave with something held in common: a shared
set of questions, a collective formulation, and the seeds of a longer trajectory (an edited volume or special issue is under consideration).</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">We invite participation from anyone interested in the democratic potentials of silence. We also welcome alternative formats, such as artistic works, design
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">While silence is the central theme, we invite contributions that consider silence in relation to one or more of the following sub-themes, and we welcome
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> The unsayable, the not-said, refusal of articulation, the limits of voice as a political idiom.</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> The politics of withdrawal, opacity, disaffection, silence as protest and care work.</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> Quiet, noise, listening, attention; sonic infrastructures of attention and inattention.</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> Embodied silences, gestures and breath.</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">To ground the event across a range of disciplines and practices, we ask participants to submit
<b>a 12 page statement (500800 words)</b> on the democracy of silence in one of the following formats:</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> Provocations and position papers: Provocations aim to unsettle comfortable paradigms and inspire reflection. Contributions may take the form of conceptual
essays, speculative pieces, or critical commentaries that complicate or expand how we understand silence in democratic culture.</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> Works-in-progress (papers, projects, ideas): Unfinished ideas are welcome, including early-stage projects, half-formed arguments, or paper drafts that
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> Generative of collective thinking. Proposals that open questions, frictions, or methods for the room.</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> We will compose the programme to accommodate a range of disciplines, registers, geographies, and career stages. Submissions from outside the academy
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> Submission deadline: 19 June 2026 (23:59 CEST)</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> Submission of revised contributions for circulation: 12 August 2026</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"> Symposium: 2324 September 2026, Oslo</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;">Where and when:<code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">
<b>2324 September 2026</b> in central Oslo, Norway. In-person only. Capacity is intentionally small (~35 contributors) to allow for sustained collective conversation across the two days. Language: English. No registration fee. Lunches, coffee, and one shared
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;"><b>Organisers and contact</b></code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">Convened by the
<i>Democracy of Silence project</i>, University of Oslo. Keynote speakers: [TBC]</code></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.375rem;"><code style="font-family: "Anthropic Mono", ui-monospace, monospace;">Contact: Prof. Taina Bucher, taina.bucher@media.uio.no; for practical questions Tine Skjelstad, tine.skjelstad@media.uio.no</code></span></div>
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