About
Anna-Katharina Laboissière is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at IKOS conducting the two-year project Generative idleness and gestures of reparation: the resurgence and promises of intentional fallowing practices in European regenerative agriculture. She has received her PhD jointly from the École Normale Supérieure and Curtin University of Technology, and has held a postdoctoral position at Curtin University prior to joining UiO.
Her current research project investigates the resurgence and contemporary uses of fallowing and fallowed land in agricultural policy and scientific research as sites of new bio- and cosmopolitical articulations. Her previous research explores the speculative, cosmopolitical, and neoliberal aspects of conservationist interventions such as assisted migration, assisted evolution, and crop wild relative breeding. She has previous experience as an assistant curator for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, has worked on several forthcoming translations of seminal texts in ethology and animal studies, and makes occasional forays into speculative fiction.