[Liuhum] Double invitation to hybrid seminars with Prof. Christine Daigle (Brock Univ., Canada) on 18th September

Sat Sep 14 21:30:45 CEST 2024

Dear Colleagues,

This is a gentle reminder about two events with Prof. Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) taking place this upcoming week. Please, make sure to read this msg till the end 🙂

One is The Eco- and Bioart Lab webinar with Prof. Daigle and Dr Evelien Geerts (UCC, IE): "Crawford Lake Encounters", scheduled on 18th September at 10:15-12:00 CEST. More information below. As the name suggest, the event is indeed hosted by EBL (and thus, chaired by yours truly).

The second hybrid event, scheduled also on 18th September but at 13:15-15:00 CEST is the Tema Genus Higher Seminar with Prof. Daigle on "Vulner—ability, Affirmative Empathy, and Joyful Extinction: Keeping Futures Open". The seminar is hosted by Tema Genus Higher Seminar Series, and thus by Prof. Joao Florencio.

Learn more below:
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18th September 10:15-12:00

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Welcome to the first this autumn Eco- and Bioart Lab hybrid seminar “Crawford Lake Encounters”<https://ecobioartlab.net/2024/08/31/ebl-hybrid-seminar-crawford-lake-encounters-on-18th-september/> with our distinguished guest and speaker Prof. Christine Daigle<https://brocku.ca/humanities/philosophy/christine-daigle/> (Brock University, Canada), and our Ireland-based team member and respondent Dr Evelien Geerts<https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A023/egeerts@ucc.ie> (University College Cork, Ireland).
The seminar forms part of the CRISIS IMAGINARIES AND ECOLOGIES<https://ecobioartlab.net/events-and-activities/> event series<https://ecobioartlab.net/events-and-activities/>, hosted by EBL in autumn 2024.
The event takes place on 18th September 2024 at 10:15-12:00 CEST in the room FAROS (T-huset, Campus Valla) and on Zoom.
REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/3Mrj33R
Crawford Lake Encounters
Abstract:
What happens when one slows down one’s pace and takes the time to really feel a place? In our contemporary moments of entangled crises, reconnecting with the nonhuman can teach us a number of things. Visiting Crawford Lake, the chosen site for the Golden Spike indicating the onset of the Anthropocene, yielded a number of generative encounters with human and nonhuman beings, present and past. My visits opened up a reflection about our entangled temporalities and lives, the life/death continuum, extinction, anthropogenic impact, human hubris, and possible other ways for us to insert ourselves in this entangled world.
Bio:
Christine Daigle, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University (Canada) and currently works as a fellow at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) in Heidelberg. She is the author of Posthumanist Vulnerability. An Affirmative Ethics (Bloomsbury 2023) and co-editor of the Posthumanism in Practice book series at Bloomsbury as well as of the first book in the series. She is also the Editor of Interconnections. Journal of Posthumanism/Interconnexions. Revue de posthumanisme.
Evelien Geerts (Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz) is an Assistant Professor in Gender, Women’s Studies and Philosophy at University College Cork and an affiliated researcher at The Posthumanities Hub & The Eco- and Bioart Lab. Their work focuses on questions of identity, difference, and violence, critical posthumanist approaches, and theorising in crisis times. They previously published in Philosophy Today, Women’s Studies International Forum, and CounterText, and recently curated a double special issue on “The Somatechnics of Violence” for Somatechnics.

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18th September, 13:15-15:00
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”Vulner—ability, Affirmative Empathy, and Joyful Extinction: Keeping Futures Open”
Speaker: Prof. Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada)

Faced with the extinction of their own species, and that of many others, humans need to do away with their way of living. A joyful extinction is one that opens up a joyful future, one in which beings and life can thrive, and this joyful extinction may require the human species to go extinct if it is unable to radically shift how it sees itself and relates to other beings. However, before embracing a nihilistic perspective, Professor Christine Daigle argues, we ought to practice what Thom van Dooren has termed "mournful hope": a practice that bears witness and opens up futures.

Venue: Room Faros and Zoom

Register: https://liu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5ErcOyvrTksHtIs4cd24oFzGE4ZFA3e8wdP

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Finally, for those of you who are around on 19th September in the late afternoon: we are planning a self-paid dinner outing with Prof. Daigle at one of vegan-friendly restaurants in downtown Linköping. Time: 18:00. In case you'd like to join us, please, make sure to drop me a line (marietta.radomska at liu.se) by 17th Sept at 15:00 at the latest.

Please, feel free to pass this invitation to anyone who might be interested.
Looking forward to seeing you all on the 18th!

Dr. Marietta Radomska | Docent | Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities | Head of unit  (Gender Studies) | Director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab<https://liu.se/en/research/the-eco-and-bioart-lab>: https://ecobioartlab.net/ | Founding Member of Queer Death Studies Network: https://queerdeathstudies.net/<https://queerdeathstudies.wordpress.com/>  | Co-editor of FOCUS on More-Than-Human Humanities Book Series at Routledge<https://www.routledge.com/More-Than-Human-Humanities/book-series/MTHH> | Division of Gender Studies (Tema Genus), Department of Thematic Studies (Tema), Linköping University, SE-581 83 LINKÖPING, Sweden | LiU web: https://liu.se/en/employee/marra73 | Personal web: https://mariettaradomska.com/ | E-mail: marietta.radomska at liu.se | tel. +46 (0) 13 28 6694

CHECK OUT THE LATEST NEWS from The Eco- and Bioart Lab<https://ecobioartlab.net/news-4/>

Select latest publications:

Mourning the More-than-Human: Somatechnics of Environmental Violence, Ethical Imaginaries, and Arts of Eco-Grief<https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0433>. 2024. Somatechnics. Special issue on the Somatechnics of Violence - part 2. 14 (2): 199-223.  https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0433

Ecologies of Death, Ecologies of Mourning: A Biophilosophy of Non/Living Arts<https://journal.fi/rae/article/view/127532>. 2023. Research in Arts & Education. Special issue on Death 2/2023: 8-22. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.127532

State of the Art: Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing<https://bioartsociety.fi/projects/publications/pages/state-of-the-art-elements-for-critical-thinking-and-doing> 2023. Book co-edited together with E. Berger, M. Keski-Korsu, and L. Thastum. Helsinki: Bioart Society.

Fathoming Postnatural Oceans: towards a low trophic theory in the practices of feminist posthumanities<https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211028542.>. 2021. With Cecilia Åsberg. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (June 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211028542.

Deterritorialising Death: Queerfeminist Biophilosophy and Ecologies of the Non/Living in Contemporary Art<https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2020.1802697>. 2020. Australian Feminist Studies 35(104): 116-137.

Queer Death Studies: Death, Dying and Mourning From a Queerfeminist Perspective<https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2020.1811952>. 2020. With Tara Mehrabi and Nina Lykke. Australian Feminist Studies 35(104): 81-100.

Other media:

The Eco- and Bioart Lab YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/@EcoBioartLab>

Check out a report from our symposium ECOLOGIES OF DEATH, ECOLOGIES OF MOURNING: VOL. I<https://queerdeathstudies.net/2023/04/04/visual-report-ecologies-of-death-ecologies-of-mourning-vol-i/>

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