Upcoming Events
Vatnajokull Glacier, Iceland | Picture courtesy of Fernando Moleres
Nigel Clark Visit
Mon, Apr 22 12:00 pm | GLAS 311
Lunch Conversation with Faculty and Students
Tue, Apr 23 3:30 pm | GLAS 300
Meeting with members of the Humanities and the Anthropocene initiative (open to any and all who are interested)
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Wed, Apr 24 5:30-8:30 | ACAD 206
Meeting with Fculty and Students at Dr. Moreiras’ seminar ‘Anthropological Discourses on Indigenous Latin America’
Thu, Apr 25 4:00 pm | GLAS 311
Public Lecture: “Transubstantiation: Human Fire USe and the Time of the Earth”
Alicia Juarrero Visit
Wednesday, March 20
1200-1:00pm, Lunch | GLAS311
1:00-7:00pm, Symposium, “Physics, Life, Gaia: In Context” | GLAS311
7:30pm, Dinner | TBD
Thursday, March 21st
10:00am-12:00pm, Alicia Juarrero Seminar on Context Changes Everything | GLAS311
12:00-1:00pm, Lunch | TBD
5:30-7:30pm, Alicia Juarrero Public Presentation: “Why Context Matters” | GLAS311
8:00pm, Dinner | TBD
Reading Group Meeting: Alicia Juarrero Visit
Mon, Mar 18 | 10 am - 11 am | Zoom
Reading: “Context Changes Everything”, Alicia Juarrero 📎
Recommended Readings:
A World Beyond Physics, Stuart Kauffman
Biological Autonomy, Matteo Mossio & Alvaro Moreno
Richard Doyle Visit
Wed Feb 21 | 11 am - 12 pm | GLAS 311:
DMNinishment: The Default Mode Network & “You” (Tune in)
Wed Feb 21 | 1 pm - 2pm | GLAS 311:
Shut Up and Chant (Turn on)
Thur Feb 22 | 10 am - 11 am | GLAS 311:
Stoned on Algorithmic Botany, With Special Reference to Your Very Own Breath (Drop Out)
Reading Group Meeting for Richard Doyle Visit
The reading group will meet in preparation for Richard Doyle’s ‘Ecognosis Seminars’, to be delivered during his visit to Texas A&M from February 21st to 24th.
Readings linked: 📎 The Ecognosis Seminars
Dissertation Workshop and Writing Retreat
Day-long dissertation workshop and writing retreat.
Location: TBA
Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]
Interview with Albert Serra
Cinema and Thought in the Times of the Anthropocene / Cinema i pensament en el temps de l’ Antropocè
6 PM / 18h CET
Organized by Teresa Vilarós and Rafael Fernández
Contact: vilaros@tamu.edu / rafel@tamu.edu
‘Limits of the Living: Reading Life as Bio-technology’ Symposium
Nov 2 - 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Nov 3 - 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM
“Limits of the Living” is a two-day symposium hosted by the Department of Global Languages and Cultures and sponsored by the Glasscock Center and the Humanities and Anthropocene Initiative. Featuring a multidisciplinary group of philosophers, literary critics, and natural and social scientists, it considers the ontological, discursive, and historical factors that have contributed to what, today, has become the undeniable entanglement of the biological and technological.
Conceiving of Earth: Surface, Skin and System
9:30-11:00 AM - Fernando Varela, “Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina Garcia’s The Agüero Sisters”
5:30-7:30 PM - Bruce Clarke, “Climate Gaia”
Contact: Rafael Fernandez Lopez [ rafel@tamu.edu ]
Reading Group Meeting
Bruce Clarke, “Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene”
Contact: Rafael Fernandez Lopez [rafel@tamu.edu]
Golden Spikes Symposium
Golden Spikes Symposium
“The Anthropocene - Why and When?” Joshua DiCaglio
“Enclosures, Degrowth, Commons” Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi
“The Nuclear” Teresa Vilarós-Soler
Nihilism and the Anthropocene Working Group Meeting
Zoom: https://tamu.zoom.us/j/2773975680
Martin Heidegger, “The Essence of Nihilism” in Metaphysics and Nihilism (Polity, 2022), 145-217.
Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]
Reading Group Meeting
Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, Allegories of the Anthropocene, 2019
Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]
Dr. Eduardo Cadava: Glasscock Short-Term Visiting Fellow
Dr. Eduardo Cadava on “Conflict Shorelines” - A meeting with the “Humanities and the Anthropocene” collective