Upcoming Events

We have an exciting line up of events this year, some still to be confirmed and added below. 

Online Workshop: The Fantasy of Bio-

Sponsor: Department of Geography, Durham University (Geographies of Life, Economy & Culture, and Politics - State – Space Research Clusters)

Date: 9th February 2022, 2:00-5:30 pm (UK time)

The emerging fantasy of the bio- is associated with economy, security, and politics. Proliferating biotechnological innovations produce various kinds of bioeconomy, such as biomaterials for manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. The proliferation of the bioeconomy provokes the concept of biosecurity and biopolitics, as it relates to industrial development and human-animal health.

Please visit our event: Online Workshop: The Fantasy of Bio- for further information, to register, or to view the

Participants & Abstracts 

Queer Ecologies Reading Group

The 'Queer Ecologies' reading group will appeal to those who are interested in thinking and reading together at the intersections of queer theory and questions of nature, ecology, and materiality. In the words of one of the subfield's founders, Catriona Sandilands, 'the term "queer ecology" refers to a loose, interdisciplinary constellation of practices that aim, in different ways, to disrupt prevailing heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and nature, and also to reimagine evolutionary processes, ecological interactions, and environmental politics in light of queer theory.' Queer ecologies are not limited to 'the natural' as an object of study but also ask how a queer reading of 'nature' might deepen our understanding of wider social phenomena.

Please do join us if you're interested - no background in queer theory (or ecology) required.

For more information and links to readings and ZOOM sessions, email Jessica Lehman or Sage Brice.

Next Up:

Thinking Like a Climate: November 15, 2021

Professor Hannah Knox (UCL) will discuss her new book, Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change (Duke).

Professor Harriet Bulkeley will be the discussant; further information for this online talk is in the events calendar.

Elemental Kinship Seminar Series

With this series, we would like to cultivate an alternative space for experimentation, fantasies, play and speculation. Things can “work”, things can “fail”. The events we wish to organise consist of artistic collaborations, delimited methodological approaches, story-telling events, practice-based activities - everything under the broad banner of ‘elemental kinship’. We envisage these to take shape in a series of ‘conversations’ or dialogues in AY 20-21. The core provocation here is thinking about, with, and through the elemental. We are particularly interested in ways of doing, knowing, writing and sensing space, and forms that might not easily find home in the traditional journal articles/conference presentation formats. 

For timings and further information contact Dr Marijn Nieuwenhius.

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