Feminist and Critical Posthuman Approaches to Climate Change

JANUARY 16 2025, 1-4 pm

Celetná 38, Prague 1

If you are interested in participating, please let us know via email at cermakova@flu.cas.cz.

Abstract:

The workshop aims to mobilize discussion around the ethics and politics of climate change in the frames of feminist and critical posthuman methodologies and theories. It is particularly worthwhile to analyze if and how relational approaches introduced as key to understanding both the human and more-than-human worlds today respond to environmental challenges and what kinds of ethics and politics do they offer. The visions of the co-dependent, intra-related, dynamic world of becoming-with that emerge from feminist and critical posthumanist perspectives provide a ground for rethinking the relations of symbiogenesis and co-becoming but also of dying-with and of “suffering from the ills of another species”. Co-dependency, thus, reveals worlds of relations that are incredibly productive, creative, and enduring, as well as vulnerable and fragile. What kinds of cartographies, imaginaries, stories, companion concepts, and visuals help us think through the ethics and politics of climate change and re-orient our bodies-environments in the entanglement of care and violence today?

Speakers:

"Ethics of de/attachment. Diffractive reading of Claire Colebrook and Karen Barad in search for relational ethics in times of climate destabilization", Monika Rogowska-Stangret (University of Białystok, Poland)

"Reframing Compassion with Non-Human Animals", Michaela Fišerová and Cristina Vendra (University J.E. Purkyně Ústí nad Labem)

"More-than-Human Histories: Plant Agents and the Ecologization of Landscape Memory", Karolína Pauknerová, Eliška Fulínová, Jindřich Prach (Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)

"Refiguring a technoecological ethos of sol(id)arity", Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer (Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)

"Poetry, Imagination and Nonmimetic Caring", Julita Skotarska (CU/CETE-P) & Petr Urban (CETE-P)

"Queer Erotics and Reproduction", Alžbeta Kuchtová (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

This workshop is organized by Iwona Janicka (CETE-P), Monika Rogowska-Stangret (University of Białystok, Poland) and Petr Urban (CETE-P).