The EBL International Symposium-Workshop Critical Ecologies: Crisis, Grief, and Resilience in Philosophy, Science, and Art brings together researchers from across the humanities, social and natural sciences, and science studies, artists and artistic researchers, designers, curators and cultural workers, as well as other practitioners, in order to engage in a transversal, inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue on the social and cultural understandings of, engagements with, and responses to the critical conditions of the present.
CALL FOR PAPERS AND CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS
We invite proposals for papers, performance lectures, and other critical-creative interventions.
The time allocated to each selected proposal may range between 15 and 25 minutes.
Please, send a 250-word abstract and a 100-word bio to: ecobioartlab@liu.se. Make sure to include the preferred timeframe for the activity you are proposing.
Abstract submission DEADLINE: 15 May 2025.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Philosophical and cultural approaches to ecological grief;
- Anthropocene in scientific narratives;
- Possible (multispecies) futures;
- Art and environmental activism;
- Anti-, post- and decolonial approaches to more-than-human crises;
- Biodiversity and citizen science;
- Curating art in times of environmental crisis;
- Polycrisis and science communication;
- Ecocide in philosophy, art, and science;
- Critical approaches to polycrisis;
- Cultural perspectives on climate change;
- Mourning the more-than-human;
- Queering the Anthropocene;
- Posthumanist approaches to environmental disruption;
- Cultural perspectives on environmental violence;
- Resilience in the times of converging crises;
- Deep time heritage;
- Nuclear cultures and deep futures;
- Design and climate imaginaries;
- Art and knowledge production in the Anthropocene;
- Art and biodiversity;
- Creative practices and sustainability;
- Cultural institutions, climate resilience and adaptation.
The event takes place in the Arbetets Museum (Museum of Work), Laxholmen, 602 21 Norrköping, SE.
Participation in the symposium-workshop is FREE of charge. Coffee and sweets/snacks will be provided.
NB! REGISTRATION for event participation will open in May 2025 – please stay tuned.
Find our more about the event here.