Ecofiction in the Capitalocene: the Annual Workshop for the Aesthetics of Empire Research Cluster
How does cultural production represent the histories of capital and colonization that underpin planetary crisis? How do established ideas about climate fiction shift when discussion acknowledges that women, people of colour, and postcolonial regions are most intensely affected by the changing climate?
Titled “Ecofiction in the Capitalocene: Beyond Climate Futures”, the annual workshop for the Aesthetics of Empire research cluster within LNU Concurrences addresses these and related questions. The workshop takes place on October 8 & 9 2021, and is organised jointly with the Anthropocene Aesthetics research group at the University of Southern Denmark, and the Centre for Climate Emergency Studies at LNU.
The keynote lecture, titled "Skin and Fuel: Two Episodes in the History of Fossilised Whiteness", will be given by Andreas Malm (Lund University). A roundtable discussion on the topic of “Mobilizations: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics” will follow the keynote, and there will be paper presentations by scholars working across the disciplines of the environmental humanities.
The workshop is generously supported by a Research Initiation Grant from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
