Transdisciplinary Seminar Series in Sustainability April 6, 2018 | 12:30 - 2:00pm | Welch Hall 206 Everyone is welcome www.brocku.ca/esrc | @BrockUESRC | www.brocku.ca/pri Anthroposcenery: imagining environmental future with feminist environmental humanities Hosted by Brock University’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre and Posthumanism Research Institute By: Dr. Olga Cielemęcka Researcher at the Unit of Gender Studies, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden Visiting Scholar, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University Member, Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University Ursula Heise suggests that there are two Anthropocenes: “For pessimists, the Anthropocene signals the enormous scope of negative human impacts on the environment; for optimists, it opens up the possibility of reimagining the nature of the future not as a return to the past or a realm apart from humans, but as a nature reshaped by humans” (2016: 203). While the Anthropocene names a fallout of human-made pressures on the environment, it may also inspire ways of resituating ourselves in the world and reinventing the human- nonhuman relationships. With this in mind, this presentation offers forays into feminist and environmental humanities approaches to environmental concerns in the epoch of the Anthropocene. In search for more speculative and experimental ways of thinking, we will ask: Does environmentalism need feminists? How do feminist intersectional perspectives help problematize the “human” of the Anthropocene? What new ways of imagining and what possibilities for multispecies alliances do they open? What kind of common environmental future do they inspire us to fathom?

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Transdisciplinary Seminar Series in Sustainability

April 6, 2018 | 12:30 - 2:00pm | Welch Hall 206 Everyone is welcome

www.brocku.ca/esrc | @BrockUESRC | www.brocku.ca/pri

Anthroposcenery: imagining environmental future with feminist environmental humanities

Hosted by Brock University’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre and Posthumanism Research Institute

By: Dr. Olga Cielemęcka

Researcher at the Unit of Gender Studies, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden Visiting Scholar, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University

Member, Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University

Ursula Heise suggests that there are two Anthropocenes: “For pessimists, the Anthropocene signals the enormous scope of negative human impacts on the environment; for optimists, it opens up the possibility of reimagining the nature of the future not as a return to the past or a realm apart from humans, but as a nature reshaped by humans” (2016: 203). While the Anthropocene names a fallout of human-made pressures on the environment, it may also inspire ways of resituating ourselves in the world and reinventing the human-nonhuman relationships. With this in mind, this presentation

offers forays into feminist and environmental humanities approaches to environmental concerns in the epoch of the Anthropocene. In search for more speculative and experimental ways of thinking, we will ask: Does environmentalism need feminists? How do feminist intersectional perspectives help problematize the “human” of the Anthropocene? What new ways of imagining and what possibilities for multispecies alliances do they open? What kind of common environmental future do they inspire us to fathom?