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04 Feb Anthropocene and Race Conference

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Anthropocene and Race Conference

We are pleased to announce the Anthropocene and Race Conference organised by IBAR will be taking place on the 5th and 6th of February 2021.

Programme Plan

Feb. 05 2021, Friday

 

09:15 – 9:30

  • Opening Remarks (by Dr Yvonne Reddick)

 

09:30 – 11:00

  • Panel A The Anthropocene and Race: Creative and Practice-Based Research (Chair: Prof Niki Alsford)
  • Helena Wee – ‘Five Elemental Mythologies’
  • Sarah Hymas – ‘Invisible Violences of Ocean: A creative response’
  • Bob Walley – ‘The Big Steppe: Causes and effects of the rural to urban migration in Mongolia’

 

11:00 – 11:15

  • Coffee break

 

11:15 – 12:45

  • Panel B Borders, Displacement, Crossings and Timescales in the Anthropocene (Chair: Dr Raphael Hoermann)
  • Karen Siu – ‘Climate Change Migration, Displacement, and Diaspora in the “Neo-Eocene’
  • Daniel Harrison – ‘Resisting the Necrocene: Borders, Biopower and the Body-in-Between.’
  • Kate Lewis Hood – ‘Chasms and currents: M Archive, the Anthropocene, and queer Black feminist time’

 

12:45 – 13:30

  • Lunch Break

 

13:30 – 14:30

  • Keynote: Syaman Rapongan (recorded interview)
    (Chair: Dr Ti-Han Chang)

 

14:30 – 15:00

  • Coffee Break

 

15:00 – 16:30

  • Panel C Fiction, Science Fiction, Climate Change and the Future (Chair: Nicole Louise Willson)
  • Chiara Xausa — ‘Climate disaster and social justice in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy’
  • Nigel Clark – ‘Race and Planetary Multiplicity: NK Jemisin meets GWF Hegel on a Broken Earth’
  • Andrea Sillis — Toni Morrison’s Jefferson Lecture ‘The Future of Time’

 

Feb. 06, 2021 Saturday

10:30 – 12:00

  • Panel D The Anthropocene, Posthumanism and Race (Chair: Dr Ti-Han Chang)
  • Dang Trang – ‘Colonialism, Racism, and Anthropocentrism: A Critical Survey of the Anthropocene’
  • Stephanie Polsky – ‘The Dark Posthuman: Historical Reproduction, Social Justice, and Artificial Ecology’
  • Sabine Broeck– ‘Posthumanism, the Anthropocene and Anti-Blackness: Engaging Rosi Braidotti’s Work Critically’

 

12:00 – 13:00

  • Lunch Break

 

13:00 – 14:30

  • Keynote: Karen McCarthy Woolf (live presentation)
  • Q&A session

 

14:30 – 15:00

  • Coffee Break

 

15:00 – 16:30

  • Keynote: Kei Miller (recorded reading and live Q&A)
  • Q&A session

 

16:30 – 16:45

  • Closing remarks (by Prof Alan Rice)

 

16:45 – 17:30

  • Informal networking to close the conference
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