Navigating Catastrophic Times: Doing IPS Spring Symposium on Friday, 19 Apr 2024 at 09:30 AM
Agenda
9:30 - 10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:30 Introduction
10:30 - 12:00 Roundtable: The Planthroposcene
Chair: Giulia Carabelli
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Roundtable: Militarising end-times and the untimeliness of life
Chair: Jef Huysmans
Speakers: Antione Bousquet (Swedish Defence University), Caroline Holmsqvist (Swedisch Defence University), Rens van Munster (Danish Institute for International Studies), Elke Schwarz (Queen Mary University of London)
14:30 - 15:00 Tea & Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:30 Roundtable: Timing without an end? The role of finitude and finality for theorising time
Chair: Mirko Palestrino
16:45 - 19:00 Conclusion and Reception
Co-organised with the School of Politics and International Relations, Doing IPS and TheoryLAB
SLBI speaker series: Houseplant Fever on 17 October 2023 at 7 pm
Beekeeping in the End Times (Lecture) 3 May 2023;
"Beekeeping in the End Times (Public Editing Event)" 4 May 2023;
Between love and indifference - Affect(ion) and the making of the (Botanical) Garden 10 May 2023;
Centre for Childhood Cultures Annual Lecture "AirBubble Playground: re-metabolising urban air through play and human to non-human interaction" on Thursday, 18 May 2023;
On a Date with a Plant: Our Botanical Relations and the History of Vegetal Eroticism 22 May 2023 at 3 PM;
The Future of Plants: Beyond Earth 15 June 2023, 3 PM.
Branch Out | Talk: The Values of Houseplants: A Conversation with "Cabinet Cultures" Exhibition Curators on 12 July 2023 at noon.
End of the Year Office Plants Repotting Party on 13 July 2023 at 12:30.
Plant Agency: A Transdisciplinary Reading Group from 2 June to 29 September 2023 at 4 pm. Check out Plant Agency Reading Group Info Sheet [DOC 25KB] for the details.