EU GREEN WORKSHOP “SUSTAINABILITY BEYOND THE HUMANS”

Workshop details:

The event brings together scholars from several European universities to explore how humans, animals, environments and technologies coexist, interact and co-create shared sustainable practices.

The workshop will take place on microsoft teams an is structured into two sessions.

The first session (15:00–16:45 ) will feature contributions from:

Maria Ilhéu and Mariana Valente (University of Évora): Learning to notice and love a multispecies world

Carsten Kullmann (University of Magdeburg): Flocking together: sheep husbandry as a driver for settler colonialism in Oceania

Osman Arrobbio (University of Parma): What to do with a lost sheep? Ignorance, care, and the surprise of meeting another living being

Joana Abranches Portela (University of Évora): To be or not too bee? – Invisibeelities of human-bee engagements in Alentejo narratives

Sofia Salema and Pedro Guilherme (University of Évora): Architecture as a Situated Practice of Sustainability

This will be followed by an open discussion.

The second session (17:00–18:45 ) will include:

Cristina Brito (NOVA FCSH, Lisbon): Is there a mermaid in the tub? Extraction, representation and conservation of sirenians across time and geography

Therese Hume (Atlantic Technological University): Revisiting Bateson: technology, learning and the more-than-human world

Matteo Cattaneo (University of Gävle): Between Ingold and Freire: for an ethic of attentiveness in a community of inquiry practice

Simona Bertolini (University of Parma): Engaging with non-human beings from a sustainable perspective. Philosophical implications

Jorge Croce Rivera (University of Évora): On feral: contemporary considerations on the wild region in life-histories

This session will also conclude with a collective discussion.

for more information please contact simona.bertolini@unipr.it