[csaa-forum] Feral: An Online Conference

[Holm, Nick]

Feral: An Online Conference (http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/feral/)
November 12 - December 2

Free and no registration required.

Please join us for a free online conference examining the concept of the 'feral' through the lenses of political ecology and ecocriticism. The idea of the feral gestures towards forms of non-human life that have spurned human control or expectations: 'bad' forms of wilderness that are out of place and upset conventional thinking about the desirable or proper arrangement of nature. From biosecurity to so-called invasive species, 'dead zones' to re-wilding, urban pests to unwanted populations, the idea of the feral calls on us to interrogate our assumptions about how, what, where and why nature ought to be, how we draw those lines and distinctions and how they speak to wider structures of power, political economy and privilege.
Featuring keynote presentations from


*         Fred Pearce (author of The New Wild and Fallout),

*         Professor Mark Davis (Macalester College, author of Invasion Biology)

*         And, Dr Arian Wallach (University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Compassionate, The Dingo for Biodiversity Project)
As well as a range of online 'panels' on topics such as conservation, biopolitics, indigeneity, agriculture and art and other areas of feral concern.

As the conference is entirely online, anyone is able to join in the discussions to help discuss and develop our presenters' contributions.

Hosted by the Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre (Aotearoa New Zealand) in conjunction with the Wageningen University Centre for Space, Place and Society (Netherlands).
Please see http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/feral/ for more details.

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Dr Nicholas Holm<http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=990001> |Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |Program Coordinator for Media Studies
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DDI 04 979 3544 |ext. 63544 | N.H.F.Holm at massey.ac.nz<mailto:N.H.F.Holm at massey.ac.nz>
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