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Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand, Katarina Nesic,  and Colin Sterling | 4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam and on Zoom.
Event details of The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies
Start date
4 April 2024
End date
5 April 2024

In this two-day conference, scholars will take up the burgeoning critical discourse of "geopower" to explore how the human and nonhuman forces shaping and emerging from the earth are articulated in art and cultural practice.

Keynote Speakers:

Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017)

Federio Luisetti (University of St. Gallen, author of Nonhuman Subjects: An Ecology of Earth-Beings, Cambridge University Press, 2023)

To attend the conference in person, kindly send organizer Simon Ferdinand an email (s.r.ferdinand@uva.nl).