Dear colleagues,
Please see below a reminder for the second biannual meeting of the Network
for Environment & Anthropology of the EASA (EnviroAnt):
Environmental Anthropology 2021: Hope, Ruination and Environmentalism14-15
October 2021, School of Humanities, Tallinn University (possibly hybrid or
digital)
Please send your abstract (max 200 words) and a short bio (max 50 words) to
EnviroAnt.Network@gmail.com by May 15 2021.
The workshop focuses on the interplay between hope and ruination in the
politics of making and remaking landscapes. Environmental degradation has
been a key concern to activists, but equally to artists, anthropologists
and scholars in related disciplines. Taking contested landscapes as its
starting point and material anchor, this workshop explores stories of
environmental destruction, but invites the participants to also attend to
the related hopes for ecological transitions and sustainable futures. How
do humans inhabit ruined temporalities and spatialities of Anthropocene
landscapes? How do the undercurrents of hope and ruination present
themselves in art and activism, creating future landscapes?
This workshop provides a forum for anthropologists, activists and artists
to explore these themes and related questions through bringing their
different approaches and experiences into conversation. This will be
facilitated through three blocks, each consisting of a keynote address, a
series of Pecha Kucha presentations and an extended discussion. Each block
focuses on one of our three keywords: environment, ruination and hope.
- Contesting the relations of landscape, art and environment (keynote
presenters: Rasa and Raitis Smite, RIXC the Center for Art and Science,
Latvia)
- Ruined pasts, ruined futures (keynote presenter: Annika Lems, Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
- Hope and activism across boundaries (keynote presenter: Andreas Malm,
Lund University, Sweden)
With its cross-sectorial scope, the event hopes to foster collaborations
between participants from different backgrounds, develop the relevance of
anthropology in addressing the challenges of environmental crises, and
imagine possible solutions. Alongside contributions from within
anthropology and related disciplines (e.g. environmental humanities,
sociology, critical geography, etc.) we welcome submissions from artists
and people with experience in ecological activism that correspond with the
thematic focus of the conference, focussing on hope and ruination in
contested landscapes across the globe or in post-Soviet contexts in
particular.
If you work in anthropology, activism, art or a related field and would
like to contribute to this workshop with a Pecha Kucha presentation, please
send a proposed title, an approx. 200-word abstract and a 50-word bio note
to enviroant.network@gmail.com by 15th of May 2021.
This event is organised by the Environment and Anthropology Network (
EnviroAnt) of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in
collaboration with the Estonian Centre for Environmental History KAJAK
(Tallinn University) and the Ethnology Department and UNESCO Chair of
Applied Studies of Intangible Heritage (University of Tartu). For more
information, please visit www.environmental-anthropology.com
As much as possible, this event will take place in Tallinn; depending on
the development of the Covid19 pandemic, it will have hybrid elements or
may be held online entirely. Updates on the final format should be
distributed by July 2021.
Hosted in Tallinn, exactly 30 years after its independence from the Soviet
Union, the workshop will draw specific attention to Soviet, post-socialist,
and capitalist regimes of landscape (trans)formation. How does the
allocation also contestation of private, military, and public spaces shape
environmental relations? How do ruined landscapes come into being and
transform, and how do they continue to exist in relation to shifting
mechanisms of power? What role do past socialist and colonial rule,
stipulations and aftermaths play in contemporary environmental degradation
and exploitation, activism and conservation?
Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which the presenter has 20 slides
that are displayed 20 seconds each. This provides the speaker with a total
of 6 minutes and 40 seconds to present their work and allows for quick and
effective transmission of ideas when meeting in person. It is also
particularly suitable for hybrid and online meetings, as people’s attention
spans tend to be shorter when looking at a screen. The Pecha Kucha
presentations will be thematically clustered in groups of four, allowing
ample time for discussion. All presentations will be plenary and there will
be no parallel sessions.
Dr. Arvid van Dam
Anthropology | Environment | Design
University of Bonn | arvidvandam@uni-bonn.de
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