Graduate Symposium: Ecology in Liminal Times"

Hosted by MA students from ESPhil, this symposium will explore the vital questions of our time. How are we to properly conceptualize the crises we face, and how can we prioritize and scale the right solutions? Do technological inventions and the world of the digital improve or hinder our natural communication? Is re-enchantment still possible in a more-than-human world that seems to have lost its meaning for us?

The event will feature presentations of papers written by students that will be published in the Erasmus Student Journal of Philosophy. Additionally, special guest speakers will contribute to the conversation and offer their unique perspectives.

So, mark your calendars for Thursday, May 25th and join us in Polak 1-20 for this exciting and thought-provoking symposium. Note: for MA students who follow the From Theory to Practice course this year, attendance is mandatory.

Programme

9.45-10.00                       Walk in and coffee

10.00-10.15                     Welcome Georgios Tsagdis

10.15-11.00                     Yogi Hendlin: Can a Crisis be Singular?

11.00-11.45                     Anna Zoë Moritz: The Self in the Smart Home

11.45-12.00                     Break

12.00-12.45                     Levi van den Bogaard: Perennially Liminal: Re-Enchanting the Anthropocene Through an Ecology of Sapiential and Spiritual Practices

12.45-14.00                     Lunch break

14.00-14.15                     Tim de Mey: Interlude – MOOC Presentation

14.15-15.00                     Carolina Sánchez: Moving beyond the Anthropocene: Reenacting the pluriverse in liminal times with the Pachamama, the Mapu and the Gaia

15.00-15.15                     Break

15.15-16.00                     Johan May: For a General Ecological Thinking in the Anthropocene after Stiegler

16.00-16.45                     Rick Dolphijn: The Land and Us: A Diffractive reading of Marx and Serres on ‘Sense’ and ‘the Common’

16.45                                Closing and drinks