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Join us to listen to the presentations by Visiting Fellows of the Biodiverse Anthropocenes program, as they share insights into their research, experiences at the Programme and the University of Oulu. Engage in discussion on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10:00 to 12:00 at Tellus Frost Club.
Register Here!https://link.webropol.com/s/sgs
Our guest speakers are Dr. Mirjami Lantto, and Dr. Monica Vasile.
Mirjami Lantto is a recent PhD graduate of the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Her research, deeply rooted in creative geohumanities, centers around material-semiotic processes within the dynamic waterscapes of the “Anthropocene.”
Uneasy Inhabitations; Liquescence and Shared States of Being in a Changing Cryosphere.
The socio-cultural, sensorial, and psychological effects of climate change are viscerally felt in arctic and subarctic regions, which are disproportionately affected by global heating and now experience new dynamics and ecologies of ice and snow. This presentation begins to develop a distinctive approach for understanding, representing, and intervening in human-cryosphere relations in an era of climate change. Drawing from feminist hydro-ontologies, and her own positionality as a cryosphere inhabitant, she will explore how increasingly liquescent cryosphere states intertwine with socio-psychological realms – that is, how states of water influence human "states of being."
Monica Vasile is an environmental historian with a background in social anthropology, working on human interventions in animal and ecological worlds across the 20th and 21st centuries. Her career includes several fellowships at the Rachel Carson Center and research roles at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the Romanian Academy of Sciences.
Reintroducing the Przewalski's Horse, from the Zoo to the Gobi Desert: A History of Wildlife Conservation.
In this presentation, Monica will explore the contemporary history of the endangered Przewalski’s horse, which was once a species "extinct in the wild" and today is considered a big conservation "success story." She bases her presentation on fieldwork and a wide range of historical sources - personal archives and travel diaries, correspondence, zoo records, reports, conference proceedings, published scientific studies and oral-history interviews. In the first part, Monica traces their history as captive-bred animals in zoos and reserves since the dawn of the twentieth century, and looks at ideas that shaped the species, such as purity, wildness, phenotype, genetic diversity. In the second part, Monica will talk about the history of reintroducing the horses’ to the Gobi Desert, and what it might mean for a species to become "wild again."
The presentations are followed by the discussion aiming to build interdisciplinary bridges and promote collaboration.
Please remember to register by February 29th.
Register Here!https://link.webropol.com/s/sgs
What: Special Guest Seminar: Visiting Fellows at VisitANTS Programme
When: 6 of March 10:00-12:00
Where: Tellus Frost Club, Linnanmaa Campus
Carolina De la Rosa Coordinator Biodiverse Anthropocenes Ecology and Genetics Research Unit Faculty of Science P.O. Box 8000 FI-00014 University of Oulu
