Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur, who co-leads the network Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Oxford (UK), will talk about her latest book Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Mathur illuminates in her book the Anthropocene in three critical ways: as method, as a way of reframing human-nonhuman relations on the planet, and as a political tool indicating the urgency of academic engagement in times of climate crisis.
Subsequently, early-career scholars working on topics related to Mathur’s research have the opportunity to present and discuss their work in progress.
Program
14:15
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene
Book talk with Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford, UK
15:45: Coffee break
16:00
Work in progress presentation
Aquatic Rodents in Switzerland: Of Beavers, Muskrats, and Nutrias: The Making of ‚Invasive Species‘ in Swiss Bioconstitutionalism
Camille Schneiter
University of Zurich, CH
Extended Urbanization and Urban-Wild Enmeshment: Urban Leopards and the Unmaking of Legal Territory in the Northern Aravalli Region
Nitin Bathla
ETH Zurich, CH
From Coffee to Eucalyptus Plantation Aesthetics: The Longue-Durée of Soil Exploitation in Southeastern Brazil
Denise Bertschi
École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, CH
LAPIS Arts of Sciences Laboratory
17:30
Closing
⇒ This is a public event. If you would like to attend the workshop, please contact Silvia Rodriguez: silvia.rodriguezcastellano@uzh.ch
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