Call for Participation – Pelion Summer Lab 2026 | The Planet in the Port
Probonas Padelis
Greetings from Pelion!
On behalf of the organizing committee of the Pelion Summer Lab for Cultural Theory and Experimental Humanities (PSL), I am writing to kindly ask that you circulate our Call for Participation (attached) for this year’s program, The Planet in the Port: Infrastructures & Undercurrents, which will take place in Neochori (Pelion, Greece) from June 26–July 6, 2026.
Now in its seventh year, PSL is an initiative of the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly, directed by Associate Professor Penelope Papailias. The ten-day lab brings together graduate students, artists, early-career scholars, cultural practitioners, activists and local communities for interdisciplinary exchange, collaborative inquiry, and experimental engagement with the urgent political, social, and ecological questions of our times.
This year’s theme approaches ports as planetary fault lines where financialized capitalism, militarization and border regimes, the afterlives of slavery and colonialism, energy infrastructures, labor precarity, hyperconsumption, and climate breakdown converge. Bringing together decolonial ecology, maritime anthropology, black geographies, environmental humanities, mobility studies and artistic practice, the lab explores ports as infrastructures of extraction and securitization, as well as archives of resistance and solidarity. The program combines seminars, workshops, concerts, screenings, and site-responsive experiments at ports of varying scales along the coastlines of the Aegean sea and Pagasetic gulf.
Applications are open to MA students, PhD candidates, independent researchers, artists, and early-career scholars.
The online application form can be found here
For detailed information, see the PSL website
