The event Thinking about the Living: Workshop in Contemporary Feminist Political Ecology (20 November 2025) brought together Czech, French, Polish and Slovak scholars working on the intersections between ecology, anti-racism, feminism and queer thought. It opened with two keynote lectures by essayist and environmental activist Fatima Ouassak on ‘pirate ecology’ and Christina Kkona (University Bordeaux-Montaigne, France) on ‘queer eco-cosmopolitanism’. The workshop featured papers on a wide variety of pressing questions: affective responsibility in an age of climate crisis, cannibalistic capitalism and reproductive labour, body-territory in Latin American Indigenous feminist theories and decolonial thought, artistic devices capturing the transformative processes of the Anthropocene, uprootedness and current ecologically and socially unsustainable commercial urban developments in Prague.

The event was co-organised by Iwona Janicka (CETE-P) and Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES) and was co-funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research through the PARCECO scheme.