5 - 8 p.m. DISPATCHES (Environmental) Humanities in a Posthuman World
ΖΟΟΜ LINK https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85859415214?pwd=Yld5Y3pBTnNEaytwZFdyOFlXTkJRUT09
Dispatches are messages sent with urgency and purpose, often from the brink of hard to reach places of danger and shared consequence. To mark the opening of the Strange Weather Symposium we will host a hybrid assembly where members of this year’s PSL 5 Ec/o/ntologies faculty and cohort, together with PSL alum hailing from all over the terrestrial globe, will join community members affiliated to the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly and engaged citizens of Volos and Pelion to provide dispatches from the front lines of today’s mounting climate crisis. The aim of our assembly will be to relay these multi-sited dispatches so that they may more clearly resonate as interconnected and collective struggles.
Towards these ends we offer two orienting prompts (choose one):
• From your particular experience and standpoint, what do you think we should know about the ecological violence that is ongoing in the places you live, work, create, and struggle? Accordingly, what are the modes and techniques of redress, repair and commoning you’ve witnessed that might inspire us?
• From your (inter/un)disciplinary perspective, how is the fact and extent of the climate crisis (i.e., the ongoing and rapid collapse of human-planetary and ecological relationships) calling into question the anthropocentrism on which the division of the humanities/social sciences and natural history/physical sciences has been based? As a result, how do you think the humanities/social sciences should/have/might be transformed (or abolished) to confront the dire exigencies of planetary ruination more meaningfully?
After a first round of dispatches (3-4 minutes each), we will take a break to invite members from the audience to add to the conversation.
This event will take place live on the campus of the University of Thessaly in Volos and through a zoom link.
ΖΟΟΜ LINK https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85859415214?pwd=Yld5Y3pBTnNEaytwZFdyOFlXTkJRUT09
Dispatches are messages sent with urgency and purpose, often from the brink of hard to reach places of danger and shared consequence. To mark the opening of the Strange Weather Symposium we will host a hybrid assembly where members of this year’s PSL 5 Ec/o/ntologies faculty and cohort, together with PSL alum hailing from all over the terrestrial globe, will join community members affiliated to the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly and engaged citizens of Volos and Pelion to provide dispatches from the front lines of today’s mounting climate crisis. The aim of our assembly will be to relay these multi-sited dispatches so that they may more clearly resonate as interconnected and collective struggles.
Towards these ends we offer two orienting prompts (choose one):
• From your particular experience and standpoint, what do you think we should know about the ecological violence that is ongoing in the places you live, work, create, and struggle? Accordingly, what are the modes and techniques of redress, repair and commoning you’ve witnessed that might inspire us?
• From your (inter/un)disciplinary perspective, how is the fact and extent of the climate crisis (i.e., the ongoing and rapid collapse of human-planetary and ecological relationships) calling into question the anthropocentrism on which the division of the humanities/social sciences and natural history/physical sciences has been based? As a result, how do you think the humanities/social sciences should/have/might be transformed (or abolished) to confront the dire exigencies of planetary ruination more meaningfully?
After a first round of dispatches (3-4 minutes each), we will take a break to invite members from the audience to add to the conversation.
This event will take place live on the campus of the University of Thessaly in Volos and through a zoom link.
