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SUMMARY:Vital Entanglements: Bodies in the Age of the Anthropocene  - Spea
 kers listed below
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DESCRIPTION:*Vital Entanglements*: Peterhouse Theory Group\n\n2nd March\, 
 17.45\, The Parlour (G Staircase)\, Peterhouse\n\nHow should we think abou
 t the interrelation of human and non-human bodies in an Anthropocenic age?
  What tools can be used to chart the strange & vital overlaps\, convergenc
 es\, and gregarious cominglings between ourselves and our environments? In
  keeping with its MATERIALITY theme\, the Peterhouse Theory Group presents
  an evening with Adam Bobbette\, Simone Kotva\, and David Whitley\, chaire
 d by Hunter Dukes. As usual\, wine and soft drinks will be served.\n\nAdam
  Bobbette (Faculty of Geography) examines the intersections of human and n
 on-human natures in vulnerable\, unpredictable and volatile contexts. His 
 current research looks at the deep entanglements between people and active
  volcanoes. He is interested in volcanoes as socio-material agents interse
 ctionally constituted by anthropogenic forces and material vitality. This 
 is focused through a detailed case study of an active urbanised volcano in
  Central Java seen through the lens of its gatekeepers\, liminal figures w
 ho mediate between the materiality of the volcano and the diverse communit
 ies that reside on it. He follows their practices\, controversies and how 
 they build and maintain fragile orders. He is particularly concerned with 
 how plural worlds can be fostered and cared for amidst the urgencies spurr
 ed by environmental uncertainty (http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/bobbette
 ).\n\nSimone Kotva (Faculty of Divinity) researches philosophies of life\,
  primarily in nineteenth-century continental thought\, and their rapproche
 ment with contemporary revivals of vitalism\, Naturphilosophie and\, most 
 recently\, environmental criticism. Her doctoral dissertation discovered a
 nd explored the connections between vitalism\, natural philosophy and Stoi
 cism which transpire in the school of French philosophy known as ‘spirit
 ualism’\, particularly in the work of Félix Ravaisson\, Henri Bergson\,
  Gilles Deleuze\, Émile Chartier (Alain) and Simone Weil. Her current res
 earch examines the critical reception of vitalism and natural philosophy i
 n Victorian and Edwardian ‘country writing’\, focussing on Richard Jef
 feries\, W. H. Hudson and Edward Thomas. This research forms part of a lar
 ger investigation into the varieties of field writing employed in historic
 al but also contemporary observations of the environment\, in the UK and a
 broad\, and the nascent spiritual idioms evinced in the styles adopted in 
 these forms of writing (https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/contact/fellows/?id=394
 ).\n\nDavid Whitley (Faculty of Education) focuses primarily on poetry\, f
 ilm\, environmental education\, and children’s literature. A long-term g
 oal of David Whitley’s research has been to open up new\, interdisciplin
 ary perspectives on the way art\, especially poetry and film\, enables ima
 ginative connections to be forged between human beings (particularly child
 ren) and the natural world. This represents a distinctive contribution to 
 the emerging field of ecocriticism\, with links to environmental education
 . Recently\, he has been involved with an international project investigat
 ing children’s sense of place and connection to the environment. This ha
 s been a very productive collaboration between the Department of Social An
 thropology and the Faculty of Education\, with the British context focused
  on primary schools in the East Anglian area (http://cire.group.cam.ac.uk/
 PathwaysProject).
LOCATION:Peterhouse Parlour (G Staircase)
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