Check out this Higher seminar in Gender Studies at Tema Genus, Linköping University on 18/9 at 13.00 – 15.00, room Faros in the Tema Building, and on Zoom. The title is “Vulner—ability, Affirmative Empathy, and Joyful Extinction: Keeping Futures Open”. Speaker is Prof. Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada).

Faced with the extinction of their own species, and that of many others, humans need to do away with their way of living. A joyful extinction is one that opens up a joyful future, one in which beings and life can thrive, and this joyful extinction may require the human species to go extinct if it is unable to radically shift how it sees itself and relates to other beings. However, before embracing a nihilistic perspective, Professor Christine Daigle argues, we ought to practice what Thom van Dooren has termed “mournful hope”: a practice that bears witness and opens up futures.

Registration: https://liu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5ErcOyvrTksHtIs4cd24oFzGE4ZFA3e8wdP#/registration