{"id":560,"date":"2025-10-09T00:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/comparative-literature-blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:39:25","slug":"emily-martin-and-quillan-qian-attended-the-physis-summer-school-for-the-2025-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/comparative-literature-blog\/emily-martin-and-quillan-qian-attended-the-physis-summer-school-for-the-2025-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Martin and Quillan Qian attended the PHYSIS Summer School for the 2025 summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our second-year cohort members, Emily Martin and Quillan Qian, attended the online Summer School PHYSIS offered by the <span lang=\"EN-US\">School of Materialist Research (SMR) in Greece. The topic for this year (2025) was about Nature\/Artificial Reimagine, the key faculty and speakers included Dorion Sagan, John \u00d3 Maoilearca, Thomas Nail, Katarina Kolozova, Joel White, and Claire Sagan. Its thematic framing\u2014rooted in materialist philosophy, ontology, transformation, and the domain of matter\u2014offered a kind of concentrated interdisciplinary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For Quillan, <span lang=\"EN-US\">this summer school was more like a recalibration rather than lecturing about matter. The program attempted to dwell within matter\u2014its movement, agency, transformation, resistance. She was inspired by the lecture from Joe White entitled <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cAn Introduction to Critical Epistemology,\u201d engaging with <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">how certain knowers, styles, or domains of knowing are marginalized\u2014disqualified a priori as less rigorous, less \u201cscientific,\u201d or less legitimate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second-year cohort members, Emily Martin and Quillan Qian, attended the online Summer School PHYSIS offered by the School of Materialist Research (SMR) in Greece. 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