Ecology, Economy, and Cultures of Resistance: Oikoi of the North American World
A Two-Day Symposium at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh Ecology and economy are inextricable. From the ‘oeconomy of nature’ theorized by Thomas Burnet, and …
Susan Manning IASH Workshop: Beyond the Anthropo—Scenes, Mediums, Apparatuses and Environments
In September 2016, the Scottish parliament voted narrowly in favour of a ban on fracking; US shale gas however arrived at Ineos plant in Scotland in the same month. Meanwhile, …
Nuclear Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theorising the Anthropocene after Quantum Physics
A workshop at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities University of Edinburgh In collaboration with the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network 29th May 2017 The current “material” turn in …
Ocean Time, Human Time A public talk by Helen M. Rozwadowski
Monday, June 12, 5.30-7.00pm Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey vault. The sea. The sea …
Monsoon [+ other] Airs
Monsoon [+ other] Airs is the first of three annual symposia that will be convened by the ERC funded Monsoon Assemblages project at the University of Westminster. It will interrogate …
Knowing the Anthropocene: Exploring knowledge practices of the Anthropocene
This short workshop explores different perceptions, measurements and understandings of the Anthropocene. It encourages participating PhD candidates to engage with each other’s ways of knowing the Anthropocene and thereby reflect …
The Caledonian Decoy
The Center for Nature in Cities Presents the Caledonian Decoy by Tim Collins and Reiko Goto Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow. FEBRUARY 2nd to 23rd, Tuesday to Sunday 11-6pm …
Guest lecture: Animals as Labourers? Marx, Work and Nonhumans
The Institute of Geography invites you to a talk ‘Animals as Labourers? Marx, Work and Nonhumans’ by Dr. Dinesh Wadiwel, University of Sydney Date and time: Friday, 3rd February 2017; …
‘Voicing the land’ A Free Public Lecture by Julian Wolfreys
The paper will address the work of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, from a mostly phenomenological perspective, opening to discuss the writing of poetry itself, from the ‘other …