From ned at nedrossiter.org Fri Oct 6 02:35:09 2023 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 10:35:09 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times Message-ID: <1e20c018-2ab1-42f5-8791-d5ae9f605256@nedrossiter.org> Hello Fibreculture list! Please see below for this event organized by the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University - includes a masterclass for postgraduate students - all welcome! Ned -- *Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times* https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023 International symposium, study tour and postgraduate masterclass Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University 25-27 October, 2023 Lithgow Transformation Hub and Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Co-Chairs: Stephen Healy and Declan Kuch Registration:https://tinyurl.com/4e6yrzn9 The climate crisis breaches basic categories of thought. The primary coordinates ? society and culture, environment and economy, human and non-human ? no longer orient the composition of the world amid profound disruption and transition. Despair and horrorpunctuate the emergence of what Bruno Latour termed ?the new climate regime?. How to respond? How do we come down to earth where ?ecological? concerns coincide with ?social? concerns for more liveable futures? Recent studies indicate four in five people have been directly impacted by climate change related natural disasters in Australia. What sort of disciplinary resources do we have available to address and make intelligible the horror and devastation of speciesdepletion and environmental degradation? In the realm of the formal production of knowledge, the divide between STEM disciplines and the humanities and social sciences is itself a product of settler colonialism and industrialization. Crafting trajectoriesbeyond this divide also means encountering cultures and cosmologies where such epistemic dislocations of this kind were never operative in the first place. The collective work of cultivating a ?difference which makes a difference? (Bateson) entails producing shared matters of concern. The integrity of soils, qualities of atmosphere and ocean, the durable futures of material and energetic infrastructures ? theseare among the cast of elements and conditions key to questions of futurity that bind the current conjuncture with generations to come. The Institute for Culture and Society stages this event to explore how we can engage analytically and politically with ?common cosmological concerns? (Latour). Leading scholars, practitioners, and artists join this collective experiment in devising new conceptsto address the unprecedented challenges that demand attention. Program D?ay One| 25 October | Lithgow, NSW 1?0:00am - 12:30pm | *After the Fire, Beyond the Waters - Thriving Future *| Jason De Santolo, Auntie Sharon Riley, David Conyers | Chair: Stephen Healy 1?:30pm - 3:30pm | *Lithgow Regional Futures - Workshopping transition ***| Louise Crabtree-Hayes, Neil Perry, Michelle Maloney | Chair: Cameron Tonkinwise Day Two| 26 October | Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo 1?0:00 am - 12:30pm | *Postgraduate Masterclass with Kelly Dombroski and Maria Bargh *| Masterclass with postgraduate students around key issues on terrestrial politics and higher degrees research. 3?:30pm - 5:30pm | *Keynote: After Latour, Legacies and Trajectories *| Stephen Muecke, Sophie Chao, Dipesh Chakrabarty | Chair: Gay Hawkins 5?:30pm - 6:30pm | Reception Day Three| 27 October | Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo *Matter of Concern, Elemental Politics* 9?:00am - 10:30am | *Energy // Transition *| Marie Bargh, Darren Sharp |Chair: Declan Kuch 1?1:00am - 12:30pm | *Earth // Off-Earth Politics *| Screening ofThe Archival Futures Collective?s Outer Space Film Quartet and Q&A with filmmakers Ceridwen Dovey and Rowena Potts in dialogue with Juan Francisco Salazar | Chair: Deborah Lawler-Dormer 1?:30pm - 3:30pm | *Care // Health *| Emma Power, Miriam Williams, Kelly Dombroski| Chair: Heather Horst -- Ned Rossiter | Director of Research Professor of Communication Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts Western Sydney University Parramatta Campus Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: