On 2 July, Susanne Knittel participated in the workshop Rights of Nature in Anthropocene Literature at the University of Vechta (Germany). The workshop was organized by Gabriele Dürbeck and Simon Probst in the context of their DFG project Das Naturkulturelle Gedächtnis im Anthropozän and it brought together scholars examining how literary and aesthetic forms engage with questions…

On June 1, EcoViolence and the Utrecht Network for Environmental Humanities hosted a conversation with Danielle Celermajer, moderated by Susanne Knittel, on how to conceptualize and enact justice in a more-than-human world. The discussion began from a shared recognition: dominant frameworks of justice—historically centred on human subjects, harms, and rights—are no longer adequate to the…

Over four months, the Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab became a shared viewing and reading table, a space for experimentation, and discussion, and it now comes to its end. Convened by Salomé Lopes Coelho (Postdoctoral Researcher, EcoViolence) and Ana Robles Pérez (KABK The Hague), the Lab brought practices of theory and artistic practice into dialogue around post-extractivist…

On June 25th, our Postdoc Ifor Duncan provided the keynote entitled “The Depositional Zone: Archive, Evidence and the Causal River” at the Liquid, Solid & Gaseous: Remembering Through and with Water Conference at King’s College London organised by Elisabetta Visaggio & Josefina Vidal Miranda. The talk drew on practice-based research methods conducted by Ifor in contexts where rivers and political violence intersect. Duncan…

Our Postdoc Ifor Duncan gave a lecture titled “The Causal River: Submerged Audio-Visual Practice for Devastated Ecologies” as part of the Volatile worlds: Image, Ecology, Extractivism series organized by Alice Cazenave and Lee Douglas. At a well attended event on a swelteringly hot June 23rd in London Ifor drew on his audio-visual research practice to address…

In early April, Salomé Lopes Coelho was a guest speaker at Linköping University, delivering two talks, each dedicated to a different thread of her research. Organised by The Eco- and Bioart Lab, the first talk, Moving Images and Ecologies of Extractive Violence, examined the affordances of moving image practices in relation to extractive violence, with…

On 11 June, Salomé Lopes Coelho delivered a talk at the Goldsmiths Centre of Visual Anthropology Public Programme. Taking baldios (common lands in northern Portugal) as a figure, Salomé explored how moving image practices, from collaborative documentaries to video installation and investigative films, render extractivism as ecological violence and intersect with longer histories of dispossession and…

On March 24 Ifor Duncan spoke at the Blue History Network’s Graduate forum at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Leiden University. Ifor presented examples from his research at the intersections of political violence with devastated river ecologies and dispossessed communities. Drawing on moving image, sound investigation, and interviews, his talk, ‘River Practice,’  reflected on…

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….