The 18th Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference, titled Transversality: Ethics and Politics, will take place July 10–12, 2026, at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, in collaboration with the Department of Communication, Media and Culture.
This year’s conference focuses on the idea of transversality -a concept Deleuze explored in Proust and Signs and Guattari developed further as a way of thinking and acting across boundaries. Transversality challenges binary divisions, fixed hierarchies, and rigid institutional structures. It invites us to think and act collectively in ways that connect rather than separate, and to explore how such connections might reshape ethics, politics, and everyday life.
Instead of treating transversality as an abstract or all-encompassing concept, the conference approaches it as a dynamic movement, one that continually crosses lines, builds relations, and unsettles dominant ways of thinking.
Through lectures, discussions, performances, camp, and workshops, participants will explore how transversal thinking can inform theory, art, activism, and collective practice today.
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Transversality: Ethics and Politics
July 10th – 12th, 2026
Athens, Greece
Transversality
Transversality is a practical concept for relational explorations (ethics), the precursors of which, as we see it in these contexts, first applied in difficult clinical and political environments:
At Saint-Alban’s postwar psychiatric hospital taking the shape of the ‘Club’ with Fanon and Tosquelles; in colonial and anti-colonial times at Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital in Algeria with many clubs and the Notre Journal; and at La Borde Clinique with Guattari’s and Ouri’s ‘La grille’.
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