BOCA invites Leiden teaching staff and students to a final workshop on Friday May 23rd at Leiden University in The Hague to explore core questions to the project and our academic practice regarding effective ways of communicating knowledge. If you are interested, please send us your proposed contribution (approximately 300 words) along three to four lines about you to boca@hum.leidenuniv.nl by Thursday, May 1st 2025.

Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla aka La ChicaScratch is a choreographer, performance artist and queer grassroots organiser born and raised in Colombia and based in The Netherlands, co-founder of the Papaya Kuir collective led by Latinx trans and queer migrants/refugees. On the 1st and 14th of April, Paula Chaves will give a workshop inspired by philosophical concepts from Maria Lugones, Glora Anzaldúa, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, focused on creating an immersive and experiential opportunity to unravel the potency of the body as source of knowledge. More information about registration will follow soon!