If you have signed up for the Monsters of the Anthropocene reading group series, you should have received an e-mail with information about tomorrow’s meeting by now. If not, feel free to contact us via this website.
We look forward to seeing you!
The Monster Network is excited to announce that we have received funding from the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities to establish a two-year Collaboratory called Monsters of the Anthropocene. The Collaboratory PI is Rebecca Scherr, and it is created in collaboration with Hugo Reinert.
Drawing on feminist theory, decolonial theory, queer theory and critical disability studies, the Monsters of the Anthropocene Collaboratory invites creative and critical engagements with the figure of the monster in order to address questions of power, vulnerability and othering in the Anthropocene. To do so, the Collaboratory hosts a reading group series as well as a series of workshops and a mini-podcast series produced in collaboration with the University of Stavanger as part of the Monster Network’s regular podcast series Monster Talks. The aim of the Collaboratory is to foster interdisciplinary collaborations as well as create a space for co-writing research grant applications. In other words, we aim for the Collaboratory to be the beginnings of bigger and even more monstrous things yet to come.
If you are interested in participating in this monstrousness, you’re welcome to join us – the first two reading group meetings are open to all and take place on the 4th of February and 18th of March, both at 14:00 – 15:30 Oslo time on Zoom. After the 18th of March, we close the reading group meetings in order to allow the core group to focus on collaborations and research proposal writing. The workshops, however, remain open for all.
If you would like to participate in the first reading group meetings to find out if this is something for you, feel free to contact us at promisesofmonsters [at] gmail [dot] com to hear more and to get the Zoom link and password.
We will update this website with news of lectures, workshops and other events relating to the Monsters of the Anthropocene Collaboratory, but you can also read more at our OSEH website.
We’re happy and excited to announce that the Monster Network has received funding for a two-year Collaboratory at the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, the University of Oslo, together with Rebecca Scherr (internal PI) and Hugo Reinert! The Collaboratory will take the shape of a reading group, and we will organize two workshops on the subjects of the monstrous and the Anthropocene. Keep an eye on our website for more information on the latest developments and possible ways of getting involved with the Collaboratory.
Until then (and after): beware the monsters of the Anthropocene.
We invite photographic submissions to a digital exhibition on the subject of chronic illness. Donna McCormack & Ingrid Young, exhibition organisers, welcome works in progress as well as finished pieces. Submissions are not limited by style or subject. We invite submissions from people who are living with or have been affected by chronic illness and who want to share their work. We are particularly interested in photographs that challenge traditional imagery of chronic illness, and that engage with queer, feminist or decolonial modes of capturing these experiences.
As part of the submission process, we ask you to provide a short description (max 200 words) of the image (or images) and say a little about how your image speaks to chronic illness.
Photographs will be hosted on the project website, and the exhibition will form part of the Visualising Bodies programme at the Being Human Festival in November 2020.
Deadline for submission: Friday, 6 November 2020
To find out more and to submit a photograph, please go here.
Any questions? Contact: capturingchronicillness@gmail.com
Our podcast Monster Talks now has it’s very own logo! The fantastic artwork is by Joanne Teresa Taylor from NettOp at the University of Stavanger.
Monster Talks explores topical issues such as the end of the world, monster methods and weird ecologies, so do take a listen! It promises to return the favour.
You can find Monster Talks at the University of Stavanger website or right here on the Monster Network website.
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