::fibreculture:: Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times

[Ned Rossiter]

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



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*Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times*

https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023 
<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 <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
    <https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/2005156/Terrestrial_Politics_in_Uncertain_Times_Program_mobile_friendly.pdf>


        Day One| 25 October | Lithgow, NSW

10:00am - 12:30pm | *After the Fire, Beyond the Waters - Thriving 
Future 
<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/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 
<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/lithgow_regional_futures_-_workshopping_transition>***| 
Louise Crabtree-Hayes, Neil Perry, Michelle Maloney | Chair: Cameron 
Tonkinwise


        Day Two| 26 October | Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo

10:00 am - 12:30pm | *Postgraduate Masterclass with Kelly Dombroski and 
Maria Bargh 
<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/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 
<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/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 
<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/energy_transition>*| 
Marie Bargh, Darren Sharp |Chair: Declan Kuch

11:00am - 12:30pm | *Earth // Off-Earth Politics 
<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/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 
<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/care_health>*| 
Emma Power, Miriam Williams, Kelly Dombroski| Chair: Heather Horst

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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
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