Join us for the sixth in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM, CARG, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World, with Michelle Murphy presenting What is Chemical Violence? Is a chemical pollutant a molecule, or something else? This talk considers the ways chemical pollution contributes to land and atmosphere […]
Dr. Sophie Bishop will discuss her research on influencer culture in the UK. Dr. Bishop researches how creative work and promotional cultures are increasingly shaped by social media platforms, and the implications for labour, representation and discrimination. She is the Specialist Advisor for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into influencer culture. On 21 March 2021, The United […]
Please join us for the latest talk in the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World, with Neel Ahuja, presenting Animal Death as National Debility: Climate, Agriculture, and Syrian War Narrative. This talk is co-sponsored by Society, Politics, Animals and Materialities (SPAM), the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG), and […]
In this talk presented by the Speculative Life cluster, Rafico Ruiz will share his work on 'slow disturbance' as a research method that can capture the lasting effects of settler colonialism on land and the built environment. He will also make connections to his current book project on post-global warming ice and the creation of […]
As many of you already know, we have recently announced this years' Undergraduate Fellows cohort! Now that we have made our introductions, it's time for the fellows to speak about themselves, their research, what they like or dislike, and anything in between and around! The 'PechaKucha-style' presentations will be taking place online via Zoom (link […]
The new year is already flying by at a rapid pace! The Speculative Life Cluster has already begun an incredibly compelling online project, the Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series. Read on to find out about the final three events, following the first that happened on January 21st, and click here for the full post on […]
In this online/virtual event with English live captions, Distributed Blackness author Dr. André Brock will speak to how social media platforms impacts Black communities— FREE, registration required (via link in the left-hand column)— Author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, Dr. André Brock will speak to how social media platforms impacts Black communities. Brock's book […]
The third in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM, CARG, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World— University of Washington Associate Professor Radhika Govindrajan presents Spectral Justice: Multispecies Haunting and Accountability in Himalayan India, which will explore the topics from her book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas (University of Chicago […]
Online Presentation/Discussion with LePARC member Oonagh Fitzgerald This LePARC presentation and discussion via Zoom will address the challenges in crafting research-creation that critiques existing international law and governance through art and performance while generating new insights about how we decode meaning and recode identity, solidarity, resistance, and resilience in the face of global crises. Oonagh […]
October 15th, at 4:00 PM—Presented as part of MTLConnectThe Global Urban Wilds App launch In person at the Champ des Possibles; meet in the Champ by the benches on the pedestrian walkway between de Gaspé and Henri-Julienhttps://goo.gl/maps/HVHzYGSkhcGLGvAJ8 The Global Urban Wilds (GUW) locative platform curates ruderal landscapes that survive in city spaces and invites the […]
With discussants Drs. Nalini Mohabir & Jesse ArseneaultThe second in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM, CARG, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World In Nature’s Wild, the Trinidad-born scholar-artist contends with his own animality. The story begins in his classroom at an all-boys Catholic high school in Trinidad, […]
Beck Pearse and Dinesh Wadiwel The first in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM, CARG, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World As we move further into the Anthropocene, questions about how to intervene in the environment have progressed with new purpose and ambition. It’s […]