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Owain Jones (Bath Spa University), ‘On Ecocide, Haunting and (self)Destruction: (hugging the lamppost till the train passes)’
This paper addresses the business of being haunted by the current ecological crisis…
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Deep Time & Haunting Keynote Lecture: Astrid E.J. Ogilvie (INSTAAR and Stefansson Arctic Institute), ‘Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders’
The wish to be able to control the weather is a deep-seated human…
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Stefan Skrimshire (University of Leeds), ‘Confessing the Anthropocene’
This talk explores the idea of being haunted by the distant future, via…
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Introduction to “Haunting” Workshop by David Farrier
David Farrier introduces the final Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time workshop theme, ‘haunting’….
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Eva Giraud (Keele University): ‘Matters of (violent-) care in the Manhattan Project Beagle Colony’
This paper critically engages with how feminist theories of care (e.g. Haraway, 2008;…
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Jeremy Kidwell (University of Edinburgh): ‘On Killing the Little Ones: Narratives of Violence and Eradication in Bacterial Perspective’
Thom van Dooren has recently drawn attention to the forms of what he…
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Greg Hollin (University of Leeds): ‘Regimes of violent-care: Democracy, climate change, and rare earth mining in Greenland’
While STS has been slow to problematize care (Martin et al. 2015), such…
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Michelle Keown (University of Edinburgh): ‘The ‘slow violence’ of the nuclearised Pacific’
On 1st March 2014, Marshall Islanders marked 60 years since the devastating US…
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David Higgins (University of Leeds): ‘A flood of ruin’: Romanticism, Deep Time, and Environmental Catastrophe’
The Romantic period saw increasing awareness of the Earth’s changing environment over long…
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