Keyword: Human Animal-relations
- contributionRavi Agarwal
It's Not So Bad to be Wild, Wilful and Peaceful
Conservation biologist and author Neha Sinha addresses animal sentience, arguing that understanding the wilful animal is a means of understanding our own place in the world.
Reflection, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity, Human-environment relations, Human-animal relations, Agency
- projectRavi Agarwal
Literature and Conversations: State of Nature 2022
Curator of literature Ranjit Hoskote conceptualised a program of conversations with prominent writers, poets, and essayists for State of Nature: New Natures, 2022.
Communicating, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Human-environment relations, Environmental Justice, Scale, Knowledge production, Biodiversity, Agency, Human-animal relations
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“Anthroposcenes:” Historicizing Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes
Talk by environmental historian Gregory T. Cushman—and roundtable discussion with Chamoru poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez and multispecies scholar Maya Kóvskaya.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Mapping, Species, Human-animal relations, Ecology, Settler Colonialism, Water, Capitalism, Landscape
- contributionL. Sasha Gora
Moths, Flames, and Other Attractions
L. Sasha Gora takes a moth-eaten dress as a starting point for a meditation on eating and care.
Storytelling, Sensing, Care, Human-animal relations, Scale
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas
Cosmic Conversations 2021
Conversations on a multispecies approach to pandemics, the Anthropocene concept, and the visualization of knowledge.
Conversation, Reflection, Species, Human-animal relations, Agriculture, Anthropos, Epistemology, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation
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Indigenous and More-Than-Human Ecological Justice: Environmental Humanities Research in the Global South
Workshop open to graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, researchers, and activists residing in Thailand.
Engagement, Teaching, Species, Human-animal relations, Ecology
- contributionSarah Lewison, Lynn Peemoeller, Andrew Yang
Encountering Para-Human Species
Non-human species sometimes mediate societal processes of marginalization, but they can also play a role in solidarity. What might we learn from other species?
Communicating, Human-animal relations, Affect, Agriculture, Biodiversity
- contributionAllison Stegner, Yasaman Sheri
Interview: Sensing
Seminar moderators Allison Stegner and Yasaman Sheri reflect on the pathways, pitfalls and rewards of collectively learning to sense differently.
Conversation, Sensing, Embodiment, Human-animal relations, Affect, Scale
- contributionFritz Habekuß
A River Indicts
If a corporation can have rights, then why not the Mississippi River?
Field Study, Reflection, Field Work, Engagement, Agency, Agriculture, Anthropos, Commodities, Environmental Justice, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Toxicity
- contributionNatalie Mueller
In Search of Lost Crops Where the Buffalo Roam
A reflection by archaeologist and ethnobotanist Natalie G. Mueller on how sharing meal of long lost plants transformed her research perspective.
Case Study, Experiment, Reflection, Human-animal relations, Adaptation, Biodiversity, Agriculture
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
Defensive Ecologies: Extracting Asian Carp from the Illinois River
A welcome service laborer turned invasive pest in the Mississippi River, Asian Carp are subject to a variety of efforts to exert control upon their spread and attempts to extract them from the Illinois River.
Field Work, Case Study, Ecology, Biodiversity, Human-animal relations
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
The Possibility of All Species in an “All Species Parade”
The annual “All Species Puppet Parade” in Carbondale prompts Andrew Yang to contemplate just how all-encompassing the phrase really is.
Field Work, Storytelling, Case Study, Ecology, Species, Human-animal relations, Biodiversity
- Field Noteipgray
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Phoenix, Louisiana, USA
Ecology, Embodiment, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Infrastructure
- Field Noteipgray
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Louisiana, USA
Biodiversity, Ecology, Human-animal relations
- Field Noteunderhil
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Montegut, Louisiana, USA
Climate change, Evolution, Human-animal relations, Hybrid, Imaginary, Naturecultures, Mythology, Memory
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Hampton, Illinois, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Field Work, Film, Sound, Engagement, Biodiversity, Embodiment, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations
- contributionWilliam Taylor, Brandi Bethke, Sarah Trabert, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin
Understanding Social and Ecological Impacts of the Horse in the Greater Mississippi
The initiators of the Horses, Donkeys, and the Anthropocene in the Greater Mississippi project provide an update on their findings.
Field Study, Mapping, Modeling, Ecology, Human-animal relations, Species, History
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Mississippi Headwaters, Minnesota, USA
Storytelling, Field Work, Anthropos, Commodities, Critical materials, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Colonialism, Beaver
- contributionSarah Lewison, Andrew Yang
Reshaping the Shape
Intervention, Storytelling, Economy, Landscape, Human-animal relations, Water, Aesthetics
- projectRobert N. Spengler, Natalie Mueller
Ancient Bison Herds of the American Midwest and the Domestication of the Lost Crops
How did the ancestors of early agricultural crops spread across space? A research project on the influence of animals on human farming practices.
Field Work, Human-animal relations, Deep time, Agriculture, Landscape, History, Biodiversity
- projectBrandi Bethke, William Taylor, Sarah Trabert
Horses, Donkeys, and the Anthropocene in the Greater Mississippi
Field Work, Human-animal relations, Landscape, Biodiversity
- contributionLynn Peemoeller
Eating the Anthropocene
How can we encounter ourselves in the Anthropocene? A study in the deconstruction of cows and an introduction to “The Lost Crops of America” project.
Field Study, Extinction, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Socio-ecological design, History, Deep time, Metabolism, Landscape, Food
- project
Reshaping the Shape
Public enemy or mascot of a global commons? Tracing the postnatural expansion of the Asian Carp.
Storytelling, Intervention, Human-animal relations, Economy, History, Commodities
- projectJennifer Colten, Matthew Fluharty, Derek Hoeferlin, Gavin Kroeber, James McAnally, Lynn Peemoeller, Treasure Shields Redmond, Jesse Vogler, Natalie Mueller
Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular
In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises.
Field Study, Field Work, Storytelling, Water, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Deep time, Time, History, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Epistemology, Environmental Justice, Industrialization
- projectKayla Anderson, Sara Black, Jeremy Bolen, Beate Geissler, Amber Ginsburg, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Brian Kirkbride, Sarah Lewison, Marlena Novak, Claire Pentecost, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Andrew Yang, Jay Alan Yim
Field Station 4: Confluence Ecologies
This Field Station sets out to engage with the ecologic-economic-technological infrastructures between Kentucky and Illinois and will bring a regionally focused lens to the globally entangled Anthropocene condition.
Field Work, Mapping, Engineering, Water, Habits, Capitalism, Ecology, Socio-ecological design, Human-animal relations, Energy, Radioactivity, Waste, Geo-engineering, Industrialization
- projectHugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida, Ana Matilde Sousa, Aidan Koch, Daniela Pinto, Pedro Moura
Seminar: Funny Animals
This seminar takes the concept of “funny animals” as a starting point for participants to explore a wide variety of “character” representations.
Storytelling, Human-animal relations, Extinction, Affect
- contributionRavi Agarwal
Castes of Environment: Dalit & Green Politics
Award-winning journalist Mukul Sharma underlines the relationship between caste and nature in the context of Indian environmental politics.
Reflection, Engagement, Human-animal relations, Naturecultures
- contributionPatricia Piccinni, Claudia Vickers
Panel talk beween Patricia Piccinini and Claudia Vickers
Artist Patricia Piccinini and synthetic biologist Claudia Vickers discuss novel forms of life and science’s role in shaping conceptions and imaginations of the world.
Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Aesthetics, Biodiversity, Agency
- projectRavi Agarwal
Conference: State of Nature in India 2018
Event in Mumbai, India, addressing how might we examine notions of power and ethics in order to address the current ecological crisis.
Human-animal relations, Naturecultures
- contributionCaroline Picard
Bound with Bright Beautiful Things
A consideration of human exceptionalism that draws inspiration from Panchatantra, the famous collection of animal fables.
Storytelling, Deep time, Human-animal relations, Cosmologies, Wisdom
- projectBrian Holmes, Jeremy Bolen, Caroline Picard, Oliver Sann, Andrew Yang, Lorraine Daston, Ryan Griffis, Evan Graham, Jenny Magnus, Viviana de la Rosa, Julia Sharpe, Shawn Michelle Smith, Ellie Tse, Guanyu Xu
Deep Time Chicago Pamphlet Series
Deep Time Chicago’ pamphlets delve into the problems, paradoxes and potentials of human and non-human life in a rapidly destabilizing ecosystem.
Case Study, Conversation, Field Work, Deep time, Education, Knowledge production, Stratigraphy, History, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations
- projectElaine Gan, Bettina Stoetzer, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Soyoung Yoon
Seminar: Feral Technologies
Thinking through the multispecies relationships that emerge from contaminated landscapes, postwar rubble, and garbage heaps that may be regarded as “feral technologies.”
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Waste, Human-animal relations
- contributionNavjot Altaf Mohamedi
Bastar Diary
A relfection on the knowledge of interconnectedness of the indigenous Muria Gond community.
Reflection, Mining, Local knowledge, Naturecultures, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Indigenous Rights
- contributionCaroline Picard, Elaine Gan, Bettina Stoetzer
The Multispecies World of Technology
A conversation on ruderal ecologies, unintended landscape design and the pitfalls of Anthropocene discourse.
Conversation, Field Work, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Urbanism, Ecology
- contributionLissette Olivares
Feral Technologies: Seminar Report
From David Lynch’s Blue Velvet to Berlin’s ruderal ecology: a video report.
Reflection, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Adaptation
- contributionMelissa Dubbin
White Sands
White Sands is a “heritage site” layered with evidence of the Anthropocene. What does it disclose about the invasion of ecology and human technological innovation?
Landscape, Radioactivity, Human-animal relations
- contributionAndrew Yang
Remnant Formations
A study on a particular ant, the Pheidole morrisi, across a wide latitudinal gradient
Case Study, Human-animal relations, Biodiversity
