We're very excited about the program that is starting to take shape and will update you over the coming weeks as actvities and participants are finalized.
This year's PSL is centered around a public symposium entitled "Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair" which will bring us into conversation with local activist environmental struggles, engage us in artistic interventions, feature documentary film screenings and collective podcast auditions, involve us in fully embodied ways in hiking and collaborative cooking, while also addressing interdisciplinary research questions around the emerging field of environmental humanities. This symposium will take place Friday June 30 (in Volos), Saturday July 1 (in Makrinitsa) and Sunday July 2 (in Stagiates).
PSL will begin before the symposium, with a couple of concentrated days in Makrinitsa in which the cohort together with faculty, will orient to our home for ten days, share skills and stories, discuss some common readings and start to work collectively toward the experiment. We are thrilled that Olga Cielemęcka and Gene Ray, who led the Survivance cluster for last year's lab on After/Lives, will be returning to take up the conversation where we left it last July. Tom Western who was supposed to be with us last year will finally be able to join us to immerse us in sonic counter-cartographies, while this year's artist and researcher from the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, Vivien Santour, will prepare us for our collective cooking action and push us to see the protection of biodiversity as a cultural, artistic and political act.
After the stimulation of the symposium days, the cohort will retreat and regroup - after a necessary day at the beach - to begin in earnest the design of the public experiment: a sound-based geolocated walk based on collaborative storytelling. This experimental workshop will be led by PSL alum Ismini Gatou and the Anthrobombing initiative, including PSL alum and PSL 5 organizer Alexandros Papageorgiou and University of Thessaly alum Alexandra Siotou. After the public presentation of the experiment on the last day of the lab, we will have our annual PSL reunion dance party -- celebrating PSL's 5th birthday milestone!
This year's PSL is centered around a public symposium entitled "Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair" which will bring us into conversation with local activist environmental struggles, engage us in artistic interventions, feature documentary film screenings and collective podcast auditions, involve us in fully embodied ways in hiking and collaborative cooking, while also addressing interdisciplinary research questions around the emerging field of environmental humanities. This symposium will take place Friday June 30 (in Volos), Saturday July 1 (in Makrinitsa) and Sunday July 2 (in Stagiates).
PSL will begin before the symposium, with a couple of concentrated days in Makrinitsa in which the cohort together with faculty, will orient to our home for ten days, share skills and stories, discuss some common readings and start to work collectively toward the experiment. We are thrilled that Olga Cielemęcka and Gene Ray, who led the Survivance cluster for last year's lab on After/Lives, will be returning to take up the conversation where we left it last July. Tom Western who was supposed to be with us last year will finally be able to join us to immerse us in sonic counter-cartographies, while this year's artist and researcher from the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, Vivien Santour, will prepare us for our collective cooking action and push us to see the protection of biodiversity as a cultural, artistic and political act.
After the stimulation of the symposium days, the cohort will retreat and regroup - after a necessary day at the beach - to begin in earnest the design of the public experiment: a sound-based geolocated walk based on collaborative storytelling. This experimental workshop will be led by PSL alum Ismini Gatou and the Anthrobombing initiative, including PSL alum and PSL 5 organizer Alexandros Papageorgiou and University of Thessaly alum Alexandra Siotou. After the public presentation of the experiment on the last day of the lab, we will have our annual PSL reunion dance party -- celebrating PSL's 5th birthday milestone!
Provisional Schedule PSL 2023 Ec/o/ntologies
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DAY 1 JUNE 28 Afternoon arrival in Makrinitsa DAY 2 JUNE 29 Faculty Seminar at the school in the morning Skill Sharing & Collaborative Storytelling in the afternoon Makrinitsa Tour/Orientation DAY 3 JUNE 30 Faculty Seminar at the school in the morning Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair Public Conference begins in the afternoon “(Environmental) Humanities in a Posthuman World” Hybrid Roundtable in Volos, U. of Thessaly DAY 4 JULY 1 Brainstorming the experiment at the school in the morning Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair Public Conference continues in Makrinitsa in the afternoon Artistic and skill sharing workshops to be announced Film screening “Up to the Last Drop: The Secret Water War in Europe” (Yiorgos Avgeropoulos) w/ Cine-Doc Volos DAY 5 July 2 Hike to Stagiates in the morning Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair Public Conference concludes in Stagiates in the afternoon Local environmental activists debrief Outdoor podcast audiocast from Laboratory of Social Anthropology - UTH & dëcoloиıze hellάş Collective kitchen w/ Stagiates Village Assembly Free Water |
DAY 6 JULY 3 Beach Day ! DAY 7 JULY 4 Sound-Based Geolocated Walk Workshop DAY 8 JULY 5 Sound-Based Geolocated Walk Workshop DAY 9 JULY 6 Preparation of Experiment DAY 10 JULY 7 Public experiment staged by cohort in the afternoon PSL reunion dance party, 5th year PSL b-day! DAY 11 JULY 8 Departure :( |
