Tag: environment
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Resisting Toxic Climates: Gender, Colonialism, and Environment
Wed 26 – Thu 27 Jul 2023, 09:00 – 17:30 British Academy/Wellcome Trust Conferences bring together scholars and specialists from around the world to explore themes related to health and wellbeing. Whether it’s the spectacular event of an oil spill or the scarcely perceptible pollution of micro-plastics, toxicity is central to the environmental concerns of today.…
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HAUNTED WATERS
Call for particapation Our friends in the Design + Posthumanism Network has asked us to share this, so of course we do. Haunted Waters: We are collecting stories, histories and material evidence from all over the world about bodies of water that are “haunted” by chemical contamination. We are now in search of people who…
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Sculpture on a Burning Planet
Online Lecture series: Sculpture on a Burning PlanetAcademy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki Our planet is literally burning, and our present-day Neros are certainly fiddling. Distracted by war and egotistical power struggles, our leaders do nothing to effectively slow climate change. Energy shortages caused by the war in Ukraine lead to renewed…
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PH & EBL Seminar/Webinar with Prof. Thom van Dooren, 30th May, 13:15-15:00 CEST
It is our great pleasure to welcome you all to the upcoming Posthumanities Hub and The Eco- and Bioart Lab Seminar/Webinar with Prof. Thom van Dooren (University of Sydney/University of Oslo) on “The craft of poisoning: learning not to eat cane toads“ The seminar/webinar will have a hybrid format. When: 30th May, 13:15 – 15:00…
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‘END OF THE SEA? ART AND SCIENCE FOR MULTISPECIES FUTURES’ WORKSHOP, 13th December 2021.
It is our great pleasure to announce our upcoming event, hosted by The Eco- and Bioart Lab and The Posthumanities Hub, and generously supported by The Seed Box and Åke Wiberg Foundation: End of the Sea? Art and Science for Multispecies Futures Workshop takes place on 13th December 2021 at 13:15 – 17:00 – on…
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Seaside Arts and Low-Trophic Imaginaries: A State of the Art Network Mid-term event
On 30th September and 1st October we will have a pleasure to host the event forming part of the State of the Art Network (SOTAN) activities, which will take place on the island of Ornö in Stockholm Archipelago. It will have a hybrid format (with eight participants on location and others taking part via Zoom)…
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Join us in a Midsummer Fertility Ceremony for Bladderwrack – an Invitation from (P)Art of the Biomass
During calm nights in May and June, and synched by the full moon, bladderwrack releases its eggs and sperms. If you want to pay tribute to the forests of the sea and help bladderwrack reproduce, especially in the Baltic Sea, you can help it find new homes. You don’t need to erect an underwater Midsummer…
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The Posthumanities Hub Seminar on ‘Arts of Non/Living Matters’, 17 June, 13:15-15:00 on Zoom
Welcome to the Posthumanities Hub Seminar on ‘Arts of Non/Living Matters’ with Margherita Pevere and Dr Marietta Radomska! The seminar is combined with the launch of the new research group and platform: The Eco- and Bioart Lab (EBL). EBL, founded and head by Dr Marietta Radomska, connects artists, artistic researchers and other practitioners, as well…
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The Posthumanities Hub Seminar “Toxic/Trans/Bodies” – new date TBA (Feb 2021)
Welcome to The Posthumanities Hub Seminar “Toxic/Trans/Bodies” with speakers Andria Nyberg Forshage (writer, poet and theorist based in Stockholm, SE) and dr Wibke Straube (Karlstad University, SE)! When: Feb 2021 Where: online More info: t4t4t4t4t: Fourfold Sex and Trans-Individuation at the End of the World by Andria Nyberg Forshage Abstract At present, 20th-century notions…