
Posted in News on May 22, 2025.
In association with the Sydney Environment Institute (SEI)
University of Cologne
July 11–12, 2025 |
There is growing evidence that the cumulative impacts of industrial societies on several vital Earth systems are reaching or have passed critical thresholds. Contemporary societies have barely begun to confront the potentially catastrophic impacts of escalating extinctions, toxic pollutants, and growing climate disruption in the medium to long-term.
This symposium takes storytelling as a site for the exploration, enactment, and unsettling of entangled human and nonhuman lives in the horizon of rapid environmental change. Our particular focus is the complexity and stakes of narrating multispecies and intergenerational histories and futures, spaces of (unevenly) shared living and dying, in a time of escalating extinctions, ecological unravelling and climatic disruption. How might paying attention to the ways in which other species experience and craft their worlds open up new possibilities for co-existence in catastrophic times? And what kinds of future imaginaries and educational practices might be conducive to enhanced disaster preparedness, risk reduction and transformational resilience?
Check out the event page for full event information with a link to the online registration form!
Registration now open!