Welcome to the first this autumn Eco- and Bioart Lab hybrid seminar “Crawford Lake Encounters” with our distinguished guest and speaker Prof. Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada), and our Ireland-based team member and respondent Dr Evelien Geerts (University College Cork, Ireland).
The seminar forms part of the CRISIS IMAGINARIES AND ECOLOGIES event series, hosted by EBL in autumn 2024.
The event takes place on 18th September 2024 at 10:15-12:00 CEST in the room FAROS (T-huset, Campus Valla) and on Zoom.
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Crawford Lake Encounters
Abstract:
What happens when one slows down one’s pace and takes the time to really feel a place? In our contemporary moments of entangled crises, reconnecting with the nonhuman can teach us a number of things. Visiting Crawford Lake, the chosen site for the Golden Spike indicating the onset of the Anthropocene, yielded a number of generative encounters with human and nonhuman beings, present and past. My visits opened up a reflection about our entangled temporalities and lives, the life/death continuum, extinction, anthropogenic impact, human hubris, and possible other ways for us to insert ourselves in this entangled world.
Bio:
Christine Daigle, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University (Canada) and currently works as a fellow at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) in Heidelberg. She is the author of Posthumanist Vulnerability. An Affirmative Ethics (Bloomsbury 2023) and co-editor of the Posthumanism in Practice book series at Bloomsbury as well as of the first book in the series. She is also the Editor of Interconnections. Journal of Posthumanism/Interconnexions. Revue de posthumanisme.
Evelien Geerts (Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz) is an Assistant Professor in Gender, Women’s Studies and Philosophy at University College Cork and an affiliated researcher at The Posthumanities Hub & The Eco- and Bioart Lab. Their work focuses on questions of identity, difference, and violence, critical posthumanist approaches, and theorising in crisis times. They previously published in Philosophy Today, Women’s Studies International Forum, and CounterText, and recently curated a double special issue on “The Somatechnics of Violence” for Somatechnics.
Photo embedded in the poster: Christine Daigle.
The recording of the webinar that took place on 18th September 2024.
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