[csaa-forum] Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times

[Ned Rossiter]

Dear CSAA list members,

Please see below for details on the ICS international symposium, Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times.

The event includes an HDR masterclass open to all.

Hope to see you there!
Ned

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Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023
International symposium, study tour and postgraduate masterclass
Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
25-27 October, 2023
Lithgow Transformation Hub and Powerhouse Museum Ultimo
Co-Chairs: Stephen Healy and Declan Kuch
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/4e6yrzn9

The climate crisis breaches basic categories of thought. The primary coordinates – society and culture, environment and economy, human and non-human – no longer orient the composition of the world amid profound disruption and transition. Despair and horror punctuate the emergence of what Bruno Latour termed ‘the new climate regime’. How to respond? How do we come down to earth where ‘ecological’ concerns coincide with ‘social’ concerns for more liveable futures?

Recent studies indicate four in five people have been directly impacted by climate change related natural disasters in Australia. What sort of disciplinary resources do we have available to address and make intelligible the horror and devastation of species depletion and environmental degradation? In the realm of the formal production of knowledge, the divide between STEM disciplines and the humanities and social sciences is itself a product of settler colonialism and industrialization. Crafting trajectories beyond this divide also means encountering cultures and cosmologies where such epistemic dislocations of this kind were never operative in the first place.

The collective work of cultivating a ‘difference which makes a difference’ (Bateson) entails producing shared matters of concern. The integrity of soils, qualities of atmosphere and ocean, the durable futures of material and energetic infrastructures – these are among the cast of elements and conditions key to questions of futurity that bind the current conjuncture with generations to come.

The Institute for Culture and Society stages this event to explore how we can engage analytically and politically with ‘common cosmological concerns’ (Latour). Leading scholars, practitioners, and artists join this collective experiment in devising new concepts to address the unprecedented challenges that demand attention.

Program<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/2005156/Terrestrial_Politics_in_Uncertain_Times_Program_mobile_friendly.pdf>
Day One| 25 October | Lithgow, NSW

10:00am - 12:30pm | After the Fire, Beyond the Waters - Thriving Future<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/after_the_fire,_beyond_the_waters_-_thriving_future> | Jason De Santolo, Auntie Sharon Riley, David Conyers | Chair: Stephen Healy

1:30pm - 3:30pm | Lithgow Regional Futures - Workshopping transition<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/lithgow_regional_futures_-_workshopping_transition> | Louise Crabtree-Hayes, Neil Perry, Michelle Maloney | Chair: Cameron Tonkinwise

Day Two| 26 October | Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo

10:00 am - 12:30pm | Postgraduate Masterclass with Kelly Dombroski and Maria Bargh<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/postgraduate_masterclass_with_kelly_dombroski_and_maria_bargh> | Masterclass with postgraduate students around key issues on terrestrial politics and higher degrees research.

3:30pm - 5:30pm | Keynote: After Latour, Legacies and Trajectories<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/keynote_after_latour,_legacies_and_trajectories> | Stephen Muecke, Marisol de la Cadena, Dipesh Chakrabarty | Chair: Gay Hawkins

5:30pm - 6:30pm | Reception

Day Three| 27 October | Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo

Matter of Concern, Elemental Politics

9:00am - 10:30am | Energy // Transition<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/energy_transition> | Marie Bargh, Darren Sharp | Chair: Declan Kuch

11:00am - 12:30pm | Earth // Off-Earth Politics<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/earth_off-earth_politics> | Screening of The Archival Futures Collective’s Outer Space Film Quartet and Q&A with filmmakers Ceridwen Dovey and Rowena Potts in dialogue with Juan Francisco Salazar | Chair: Deborah Lawler-Dormer

1:30pm - 3:30pm | Care // Health<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/care_health> | Emma Power, Miriam Williams, Kelly Dombroski | Chair: Heather Horst

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Ned Rossiter | Director of Research
Professor of Communication
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Western Sydney University
Parramatta Campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith NSW 2751
Australia



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