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…

This inter- and transdisciplinary conference, co-organized by Susanne Knittel with the UU Conceptualising Ecocide Project,  brought together over 50 speakers from around the world and across disciplines to critically engage with the emerging concept of ecocide and its legal, political, historical, and cultural ramifications. The conference kicked off with an insightful roundtable on teaching about ecocide in…

In September, Susanne Knittel travelled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to participate as one of the instructors in the workshop Archives of Perpetration. The workshop was organized by Stéphanie Benzaquen, Anne-Laure Porée and the Center for Khmer Studies in collaboration with the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and Bophana Audio Visual Center. Earlier this year, the Tuol…

In the span of three days (5-7 June), Nottingham Trent University hosted the Conference Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization – Future Directions in Memory Studies. On Saterday, our team presented a panel, entitled Mnemonic Ecologies of Violence, and it explored the entanglements of different histories, forms, and structures of violence against humans and nonhumans and how these…

On June 13, poet and scholar Juliana Spahr and Tom van Bunnik discussed the practice of writing ecopoetry at the final installment of the “Nature’s Narrative” workshop series. Despite the heat, the room was packed with University students and staff, as well as creative practitioners, including writers, poets, and artists. Juliana started the workshop by…

On May 21 the Network for Environmental Humanities and Stichting BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries hosted a public reading featuring Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) and Ifor Duncan, which was organised by Mia You and Adele Bardazzi. The event was part of the collaborative reading series The Florilegia (‘bloemlezingen’, ‘flower-gatherings’). The series features public readings and discussions by international writers working…

The Conceptualizing Ecocide project has launched various knowlegde clips. One of the clips features Susanne Knittel. We are reposting the clip here below. Susanne is member of the Ecocide Knowlegde Hub. For further information on the project and view other knowlegde clips, check out the link.

Our postdoctoral fellow Ifor Duncan is currently exhibiting the collaborative multimedia installation Border Depositions with Stefanos Levidis for the Liminal Ecologies: Thresholds of Transition and Entanglement Exhibition curated by Marianna Tsionki and Mariana Cunha at Tranzit.sk in Bratislava (27/03/2025-11/07/2025). Ifor and Stefanos activated the opening of the Exhibition by presenting their media lecture Weaponizing a…