Guest lectures and seminars - Page 3

The third Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be given by Jason Allen-Paisant, Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, and will address the challenge of a just ecological transition by exploring how ideas and praxes of ‘cultivation’ might foster an awareness of deep time in mainstream political consciousness.

David Grimaldi (University of Oslo)

In this DynamiTE lunchtime seminar, Teea Kortetmäki will be presenting her paper on ‘Cohabitability and land use’.

In the second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Matthew Chrulew, a writer and researcher from Boorloo/Perth, will talk about behavioural and cultural change among animals exposed to human activity.

In this lecture, the Australian cultural theorist Ian Buchanan will discuss the notions of flow and resistance in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s assemblage theory.

Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt)

The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be led by Dr. Hanna Guttorm, senior researcher at the University of Helsinki, who focuses on Indigenous studies and is a member of Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Sciences.

Filippo Battistoni (Pisa) - Discussant: Ed Bispham (Oxford)

Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg)

This lecture aims to introduce and discuss the important and fruitful connection between social epistemology and critical theory to understand forms of injustice.

Diane Cuny (Université de Tours, France)

In this lecture, the German philosopher Christian Grüny will reflect upon the concept of Performance Art, exploring its possible relevance within contemporary art and music practices.

In this DynamiTE lunchtime seminar, Jamie Draper will be presenting his paper ‘Climate Change and Territorial Sovereignty’.

Elena Dahlberg (Uppsala University)

In this lecture, Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths University) will discuss "investigative aesthetics", or the role of sensing and sense-making in investigative practices in art, journalism and law.

The whale is held to have great symbolic meaning, as an environmental emblem, as food, as tourist attraction, and more. In Andenes, Vesterålen, two anthropologists, Britt Kramvig and Sadie Hale talk about their search for different kinds of whales and the particular ways that the whale-as-symbol is contested in this place.

Visa A. J. Kurki (University of Helsinki) will present his article 'Can nature hold rights?: It's not as easy as you think'

Reading Armenian History as a Socially Symbolic Act

Nicholas S.M. Matheou (University of Edinburgh)

Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo)

Philosophical Seminar with Jens Timmermann (St Andrews)

In this lecture, art historian Mechtild Widrich (Chicago) will review recent debates about contemporary monuments in light of overwhelming experiences of a world in crisis.

In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?