In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language
Our understanding of the world around us has been a constantly-shifting thing. We have always sought to explain natural phenomena we can’t understand and to use myth, ritual and religion …
Year: 2017
Professor Aaron Gross, The Question of the Animal and Religion
Drawing from a recent book project, this presentation argues for a reconfiguration of the category of the animal in the study of culture and religion. Foundational theorists in the human …
Writing with Undisciplined Discipline: A Writing Workshop with Environmental Humanities
We invite scholars, artists and activists to participate in this two-day experimental writing workshop. Using environmental humanities (EH), we seek to undiscipline and de-institutionalise modes and means of research-writing practice …
Second CFP: Mediating Climate Change
Second Call for Papers: Mediating Climate Change University of Leeds Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017 Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor …
Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation
CALL FOR PAPERS If the emergence of the Anthropocene implies an epistemological shift, how might this transform the way we think about representation and, more specifically, its geopolitics? What kinds …
