{"id":1280,"date":"2022-10-03T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:45:23","slug":"upcoming-rob-nixon-at-the-11th-stockholm-archipelago-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2022\/10\/upcoming-rob-nixon-at-the-11th-stockholm-archipelago-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming: Rob Nixon at the 11th Stockholm Archipelago Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content-wrapper\"><p>We are happy to announce that the next Stockholm Archipelago Lecture is coming up on 10 November 2022 at 5pm (Stockholm time). <a href=\"https:\/\/english.princeton.edu\/people\/rob-nixon\">Rob Nixon<\/a> is going to give his presentation titled &#8220;The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life&#8221;. Feel free to join digitally! You find the link below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Why have millions of readers and viewers become magnetized by the hitherto arcane field of plant communication? Since the great recession of 2008, we have witnessed an upsurge in public science\u00a0 writing that has popularized research into forest sentience, forest\u00a0 suffering and the forest as collective intelligence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This talk roots the current appeal of forest communication in a\u00a0 widespread discontent with neoliberalism\u2019s antipathy to cooperative\u00a0 ways of being. Nixon argues that the science of forest dynamics\u00a0 offers a counter-narrative of flourishing, an allegory for what George Monbiot has called \u201cprivate sufficiency and public wealth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Rob Nixon\" src=\"https:\/\/english.princeton.edu\/sites\/english\/files\/styles\/faculty-photo\/public\/Rob_Nixon_2019.jpg?itok=HpzLx8Nq\" alt=\"Rob Nixon\" width=\"260\" height=\"326\" \/>Rob Nixon<\/strong> is the Barron Family Professor in Environment and Humanities at Princeton University. His books include, most recently, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Nixon is currently completing a book entitled Blood at the Root. Environmental Martyrs and the Defense of Life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nixon writes frequently for the New York Times. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian, The Nation, London Review of Books, The Village Voice, Aeon, Orion, Critical Inquiry and elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Environmental justice struggles in the global South are central to Nixon\u2019s work. He is a particularly fascinated by the animating role that artists can play in relation to social movements.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"calendarevent__info--fixed\">Time: Thu 2022-11-10 17.00<\/p>\n<p class=\"calendarevent__info--fixed\">Video link: <a href=\"https:\/\/kth-se.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/u5IsceytpjIuE9YU6W7DCSPNCcIq2zam9Dhd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/kth-se.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/u5IsceytpjIuE9YU6W7DCSPNCcIq2zam9Dhd<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"calendarevent__info--fixed\">Language: English<\/p>\n<p class=\"calendarevent__info--fixed\">Lecturer: Rob Nixon<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that the next Stockholm Archipelago Lecture is coming up on 10 November 2022 at 5pm (Stockholm time). Rob Nixon is going to give his presentation titled &#8220;The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life&#8221;. Feel free to join digitally! You find the link below. 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