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The 5th PSL on the theme of Ec/o/ntologies took place June 28-July 8, 2023, in Makrinitsa.
PSL 2023 explored how debates, methods, and epistemologies informing the emergent interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities might help confront and retool collective responses to the dire planetary exigencies of the mounting climate crisis. A central contention of ec/o/ntologies is that the ongoing collapse of human-planetary relations has made the bracketing of natural history from human history, the distinction between life and nonlife, nature and culture, increasingly untenable politically, intellectually and on the level of everyday existence.
In addition to seminars and workshops, a 3-day public symposium was organized in the context of the 2023 Pelion Summer Lab. Under the title of “Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair”, the symposium unfolded in three locations (Volos on June 30th, Makrinitsa on July 1, and Stagiates on July 2) and attempted to create a space of exchange and encounter through participatory activities and multimodal formats (assemblies, documentary screening, collective audition of podcasts). As per custom, PSL 5 culminated in Makrinitsa with a final public experiment designed and created by the cohort: soundwalks in the village, called Echo/locations.
PSL 5 was made possible with the support of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (ECHN).
The organizing committee for PSL 2023: Penelope Papailias, Pantelis Probonas, George Mantzios, Alexandros Papageorgiou, Penny Paspali, Dimitra Morosou, Erika Tsioukantana.
The following seminars and workshops were held by PSL 2023 faculty:
For more details, see the booklet [download at top of the page]!
PSL 2023 explored how debates, methods, and epistemologies informing the emergent interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities might help confront and retool collective responses to the dire planetary exigencies of the mounting climate crisis. A central contention of ec/o/ntologies is that the ongoing collapse of human-planetary relations has made the bracketing of natural history from human history, the distinction between life and nonlife, nature and culture, increasingly untenable politically, intellectually and on the level of everyday existence.
In addition to seminars and workshops, a 3-day public symposium was organized in the context of the 2023 Pelion Summer Lab. Under the title of “Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair”, the symposium unfolded in three locations (Volos on June 30th, Makrinitsa on July 1, and Stagiates on July 2) and attempted to create a space of exchange and encounter through participatory activities and multimodal formats (assemblies, documentary screening, collective audition of podcasts). As per custom, PSL 5 culminated in Makrinitsa with a final public experiment designed and created by the cohort: soundwalks in the village, called Echo/locations.
PSL 5 was made possible with the support of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (ECHN).
The organizing committee for PSL 2023: Penelope Papailias, Pantelis Probonas, George Mantzios, Alexandros Papageorgiou, Penny Paspali, Dimitra Morosou, Erika Tsioukantana.
The following seminars and workshops were held by PSL 2023 faculty:
- Skills for Commoners with Gene Ray
- Eating earth: Experiments in Finitude with Olga Cielemęcka
- To Eat Alone is to Die Alone with Vivien Sansour
- Undercartographies with Tom Western
- Anthrobombing: A collaborative storytelling and performance workshop with Alexandros Papageorgiou & Alexandra Siotou
- Futuring Waters: Rewilding (Regeneration, Transformation, Purification, Biodiversity) with Jenny Marketou
For more details, see the booklet [download at top of the page]!
