The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies

We would like to share information about an upcoming conference: The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies

4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam & livestreamed on Zoom | Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand, Katarina Nesic, and Colin Sterling

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)

The in-person proceedings will be live streamed through Zoom, the links for which can be found here (https://www.simonferdinand.com/aesthetics-of-geopower).