Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene
In December 2014, the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment will host a symposium called “Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities.” This small symposium has restricted numbers, but the four keynote presentations will all be held as public lectures, free and open to anyone who would like to attend.
The Six Extinctions: Visualizing Planetary Ecological Crisis Today
Joe Masco, University of Chicago, USA
Tuesday 2 December 2014, 18:00-19:30
Teknikringen 72, Room V3
(map: http://www.kth.se/places/room/A43:11/203)
Cosmo-ecological Sheep and the Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Vinciane Despret* and Michel Meuret, University of Liège, Belgium and INRA, Montpellier, France
Wednesday 3 December 2014, 9:00-10:30
KTH Biblioteket, Sydöstra Salongen (Library, Southeast Salon)
(map: http://www.kth.se/places/room/na/na-sydostra-galleriet, once you've entered the library the Southeast Salon is up the stairs on your left).
Fidelity in the Face of Extinction: Toward a Poetics of Refusal
Deborah Bird Rose, University of New South Wales, Australia
Wednesday 3 December 2014, 18:00-19:30
Teknikringen 72, Room V3
(map: http://www.kth.se/places/room/A43:11/203)
Ontologies of planetary ephemera: Life cycles and synchronicities of the cryo-sphere
Sverker Sörlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Thursday 4 December 2014, 9:00-10:30
Teknikringen 72, Room V3
(map: http://www.kth.se/places/room/A43:11/203)