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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Please see below for details on the ICS international symposium, Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">International symposium, study tour and postgraduate masterclass<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">25-27 October, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Lithgow Transformation Hub and Powerhouse Museum Ultimo <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Co-Chairs: Stephen Healy and Declan Kuch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Registration:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4e6yrzn9" title="https://tinyurl.com/4e6yrzn9"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://tinyurl.com/4e6yrzn9</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>beyond this divide also means encountering cultures and cosmologies where such epistemic dislocations of this kind were never operative
in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are among the cast of elements and conditions key to questions of futurity that bind the current conjuncture with generations to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to address the unprecedented challenges that demand attention.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/2005156/Terrestrial_Politics_in_Uncertain_Times_Program_mobile_friendly.pdf" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/2005156/Terrestrial_Politics_in_Uncertain_Times_Program_mobile_friendly.pdf"><span style="color:#0078D7">Program</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color:#212121">Day One| 25 October | Lithgow, NSW<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">10:00am - 12:30pm | <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/after_the_fire,_beyond_the_waters_-_thriving_future" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/after_the_fire,_beyond_the_waters_-_thriving_future"><span style="color:#0078D7">After
the Fire, Beyond the Waters - Thriving Future</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>| Jason De Santolo, Auntie Sharon Riley, David Conyers | Chair: Stephen Healy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">1:30pm - 3:30pm | <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/lithgow_regional_futures_-_workshopping_transition" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/lithgow_regional_futures_-_workshopping_transition"><span style="color:#0078D7">Lithgow
Regional Futures - Workshopping transition</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>| Louise Crabtree-Hayes, Neil Perry, Michelle Maloney | Chair: Cameron Tonkinwise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Day Two| 26 October | Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">10:00 am - 12:30pm | <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/postgraduate_masterclass_with_kelly_dombroski_and_maria_bargh" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/postgraduate_masterclass_with_kelly_dombroski_and_maria_bargh"><span style="color:#0078D7">Postgraduate
Masterclass with Kelly Dombroski and Maria Bargh</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>| Masterclass with postgraduate students around key issues on terrestrial politics and higher degrees research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">3:30pm - 5:30pm | <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/keynote_after_latour,_legacies_and_trajectories" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/keynote_after_latour,_legacies_and_trajectories"><span style="color:#0078D7">Keynote:
After Latour, Legacies and Trajectories</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>| Stephen Muecke, Marisol de la Cadena, Dipesh Chakrabarty | Chair: Gay Hawkins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">5:30pm - 6:30pm | Reception<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Day Three| 27 October | Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Matter of Concern, Elemental Politics</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">9:00am - 10:30am | <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/energy_transition" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/energy_transition"><span style="color:#0078D7">Energy
// Transition</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>| Marie Bargh, Darren Sharp |<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Chair: Declan Kuch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">11:00am - 12:30pm | <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/earth_off-earth_politics" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/earth_off-earth_politics"><span style="color:#0078D7">Earth
// Off-Earth Politics</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>| Screening of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">1:30pm - 3:30pm | <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/care_health" title="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_conference_2023/care_health"><span style="color:#0078D7">Care
// Health</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>| Emma Power, Miriam Williams, Kelly Dombroski<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>| Chair: Heather Horst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Professor of Communication<br>
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Western Sydney University<br>
Parramatta Campus<br>
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Australia</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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