Hello and welcome to the September newsletter of morethanhumanworlds!

This month, I'm sharing an essay on wetness published by Art+Australia, an article on spacecrafts and sovereignty published by TRT World, a book chapter published in the volume What Makes Us Human? (Polity Press, 2021), and a recorded introductory seminar to multispecies studies, hosted by the Royal University of Bhutan.

Some exciting talks are coming up this month! I'll be acting as a discussant for Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart's keynote lecture and giving a paper on sagoscapes in West Papua at the Food Matters and Materialities Conference (Carleton University). I'll also be giving a seminar on Indigenous food-based ecologies, socialities, and identities as part of the Sydney Health Ethics Conversation Series.

This month, two online talks will be held as part of the ARC-funded The Promise of Multispecies Justice project, featuring Indigenous STS scholar Kim TallBear (University of Alberta, Canada), human geographer Noriko Ishiyama (Meiji University, Japan), and environmental anthropologist Radhika Govindrajan.

In this month's Morethanhuman Matters interview, I speak with Kristina Lyons, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences, whose research is situated at the interface of socio-ecological conflicts, transitional justice, community-based forms of reconciliation, science studies, and legal anthropology in Colombia.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us at the online conference, Food Matters and Materialities: Critical Understandings of Food Cultures, hosted by Carleton University, Canada. During this conference, I'll be offering some thoughts in response to a keynote by anthropologist  Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart on the themes of resistance, food, and labor in Hawai'i. I'll also be giving a paper on sagoscapes as foodscapes in West Papua. To see the conference program and register, click here.

On 16 September, I'll be giving a guest seminar on Indigenous food-based ecologies, socialities, and identities as part of the Sydney Health Ethics Conversation Series. This seminar will draw from my ethnographic research in West Papua and explore how the rise of capitalist natures reconfigures Indigenous food systems and environments.

To register, contact she_events@mailman.med.usyd.edu.au.

This month, two online talks will be held with contributing authors to the ARC-funded The Promise of Multispecies Justice research project and edited volume (Duke University Press, under contract).

On 3 September, Indigenous STS scholar Kim TallBear (University of Alberta, Canada) and human geographer Noriko Ishiyama (Meiji University, Japan) will explore the material, spiritual, and relational forms of justice and accountability imagined and enacted by Indigenous peoples in Indian Country. To register, click here.

On 17 September, environmental anthropologist Radhika Govindrajan (University of Washington) will reckon with slippery questions of justice grounded in complex cares and responsibilities across human and bovine lives (and afterlives) in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India (discussant: Alex Blanchette, Tufts University). To register, click here.

To register for upcoming Promise of Multispecies Justice talks, visit www.multispeciesjustice.space. 

""I am interested in projects that are conceptually propositional and in conversation with practitioners who are enacting alternative ways of being and living – individuals and collectives who are trying to flourishing differently, transform current conditions despite the odds, and without guarantees."

Kristina Lyons

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