We are circulating details of this conference on behalf of Dr Edwin Coomasaru.
Wed 26 – Thu 27 Jul 2023, 09:00 – 17:30, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Full details via the British Academy, here.
Whether it’s the spectacular event of an oil spill or the scarcely perceptible pollution of micro-plastics, toxicity is central to the environmental concerns of today. To exist in the world means being vulnerable to multiple forms of toxicity. Yet, conditions of vulnerability are unequal, shaped by enduring global histories of colonialism and capitalism.
This event will highlight the toxic valences of coloniality, asking how toxicity manifests and mutates with particular regard to gender across variously situated bodies, lands and waterscapes. While we are concerned with the interrelated forms of material toxicity that threaten the wellbeing of human and more-than-human communities, we also seek to facilitate dialogue around pertinent social, political and cultural discourses of toxification. Operating at the intersections of the medical and environmental humanities, and centering feminist, queer, decolonial and Indigenous paradigms, this interdisciplinary event brings together scholars and practitioners working across disciplines and employing creative and/or critical modes of enquiry to explore these topics.
Resisting Toxic Climates will feature a series of original artworks by Natasha Thembiso Ruwona and Caitlin Stobie, produced in response to the themes and setting of the event.
The programme will feature a tour of the exibition Shipping Roots by Keg De Sousa, led by the exhibition curator Emma Nicolson.
Conference convenors
- Dr Rebecca Macklin, University of Edinburgh
- Dr Alexandra Campbell, University of Glasgow
- Professor Michelle Keown, University of Edinburgh
Speakers
- Professor Cecilia Åsberg, Linkoping University & KTH
- Professor Mishuana Goeman, University of Buffalo
- Professor Savage Bear, McMaster University
- Dr Metzli Yoalli Rodriguez, Forest Lake University
- Dr Hannah Boast, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Astrida Niemanis, University of British Columbia Okanagan
- Dr Christine Okoth, Kings College London
- Dr Treasa De Loughery, University College Dublin
- Dr Dipali Mathur, Ulster University
- Dr Jason Allen-Paisant, University of Manchester
- Dr Thandi Loewenson, Royal College of Art
- Dr Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawaii
- Dr Alycia Pirmohamed, University of Cambridge
- Professor Patricia Widener, Florida Atlantic University
- Dr J.T. Roane, Rutgers University
- Dr Caitlin Stobie, University of Leeds
- Natasha Thembiso Ruwona
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