Part 1 consists of a two-day workshop that hosts a maximum of 25 participants, selected through the application process outlined in the following pages. Twelve travel scholarships will be available. The scope of the workshop is to enable scholars addressing the proposed themes to connect and establish a dispersed working group across the region.
Part 2, which takes place right after the Workshop, consists of a Lab where seven selected participants will engage in a two-day writing Lab on the Workshop's themes. Part 2 is by invitation only. The scope of the lab is to produce a collective working text on the themes of the workshop, to structure and open up conversations across and beyond the Beyond Inhabitation Lab.
Applications for the Workshop (27th-28th May, 2027) are open to all scholars and writers based in the wider geographies of the Mediterranean or currently working on, across and with the region. To apply, interested people have to submit their CV and a substantive short essay addressing one or more of the following questions:
- How do Mediterranean popular territories maintain their collective intelligence when every major infrastructure project embeds military logics?
- What are the specific circuitries through which military desire flows across the Mediterranean—and where does it get interrupted, redirected, refused?
- How do we distinguish between genuine collective spaciousness and dexterity and militarised forms of social cohesion?
- Can we trace forms of popular intelligibility and collective action that explicitly refuse the military bargain while still enabling survival?
The essay should be of no more than 2,000 words, excluding bibliography. We welcome the use of medias and speculative writing. We invite participants to write from a situated standpoint, grounding their conceptual work in specific histories, geographies and genealogies of Mediterranean struggles.
The deadline for submitting the materials for the Workshop is 23rd October, 2026.