We were thrilled to co-host a two-day workshop “Mapping Ecological Violence” with the London-based investigative agency Forensic Architecture (FA). The workshop was designed as a space for methodological exchange: how ways of seeing, sensing, mapping, and evidencing ecological violence and harm travel across disciplines and research contexts. On Thursday May 7 we had a day-long workshop with…

On March 24 Ifor Duncan spoke at the launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of Visual Culture entitled Weaving Worlds at the Urban Room, UCL East. The event featured presentations from authors and a roundtable discussion on key themes of the issue, including Ifor’s collaborative article Politics of the turbid image: against underwater fascist visual rhetoric….

We are truly grateful to everyone who joined us for the screening of Savanna and the Mountain, at BAK Basecamp. Through the film and the conversation with Aida Fernandes (Chairperson of the Covas do Barroso Communal Lands Council and member of the United in Defense of Covas do Barroso anti-mining association), we better understood the…

On April 15 we hosted the roundtable “Ecoviolence and Multispecies Justice: Rethinking Responsibility,” as part of the EASLCE 2026 conference, “Join the Orca Uprising! Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice” (11th Biennial EASLCE Conference, Utrecht University, 14–17 April 2026). The session brought together the whole team for an interdisciplinary conversation on how violence unfolds across human and more-than-human worlds….

8–9 October 2026 This workshop -organised by Salomé Lopes Coelho– brings together scholars, artist-researchers, and filmmakers to explore how moving images reveal and challenge extractivism while experimenting with post-extractivist propositions. Here, post-extractivism is conceived as both a horizon and a framework: a set of critical and creative approaches that envision socio-ecological relations beyond extractive regimes….

EcoViolence is proud to announce MOVING [IMAGES] POST-EXTRACTIVISM, a year-long programme organised by Salomé Lopes Coelho, together with the Network for Environemental Humanities. How can moving images reveal and refuse the ecologies of extractive violence? How can cinema enact post‑extractive world configurations? This year-long programme focuses on moving images to think with and against contemporary…

On 4 December we welcomed Professor Susan Schuppli for an evening presentation Ice Memory hosted by BAK basecamp, alongside The Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies and the Network for Environmental Humanities. From Ice Core archives to the sound of Himalayan glaciers, Schuppli shared elements from her practice that relate to memory in the context of…

On 3 December, Salomé Lopes Coelho is presenting her paper ‘Inhuman Intimacies: Air, Water, and Transorientation in Latin American Experimental Films’ at the II Coloquio Ecologías Críticas, hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During her presentation, Salomé will analyse experimental cinematic practices by Latin American women filmmakers who engage with air and water as entangled materialities….

Salomé Lopes Coelho recently conducted fieldwork in Portugal as part of her ongoing research project on cinematic memory and ecological responsibility in extractive zones. The trip comprised two key components: participation in CineEco – International Environmental Film Festival of Serra da Estrela (Seia) and field visits to Covas do Barroso during the Critical Zones meeting…

In October we brought together an extraordinary group of over 30 international researchers and practitioners for the workshop Conflict Rivers: Waterways and Ecological Devastation in Visual Cultures and Practice. Together, we explored rivers as sites of conflict between local communities and global finance, property, development, extraction, and exploitation. Where rivers are constitutive features of the…