Horizons Institute events
This page lists events hosted by the Horizons Institute and members of the research community. All events are open to anyone with an interest in the subject area.
Polycrisis Network seminar: Nondisciplinarity, Multielementalism, and More-than-Human Livingness
Thursday 23 October, 4 – 5pm, Online
The Polycrisis Network is pleased to invite you to a seminar with , joining us online from University of California, Santa Cruz. talking about Nondisciplinarity, Multielementalism, and More-than-Human Livingness.
The tragedy of geo-ecology is that across nearly the entire political spectrum, its concerns have been deferred to an imagined future. Its resolution is either subsumed within the promise of a post-capitalist order or delegated to human ingenuity that will deliver a technofix. Or it is just erased altogether by a reductive and blatant humanism. In these conditions, is more-than-human thought and experience possible? What are the methodological and practical conditions that would allow us to ask the question of more-than-human livingness?
Insight series: A Science-Art Dialogue – Creatively Reimagining observation techniques for medical research
Wednesday 5 Novermber, 10 – 11am, Online
In this session, , and will discuss the science-art dialogue at the heart of their collaboration between the fields of non-traditional drawing and Medical Research.
Explaining how they have integrated artistic creativity with scientific observations to reimagine biological (cellular and molecular) characteristics and behaviours, the team will expand on the idea that, at the heart of the science-art dialogue, is a focus upon the methodologies of creation rather than the outcomes themselves.
Polycrisis Network seminar: Multi-perspectivist Infrastructures Needed to Face Polycrisis
Thursday 6 November, 12 – 1pm, Baines Wing SR (2.16) and Online (Teams)
Join us to hear from , Professor in Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis who will be joining us online from Paris.
This presentation will open the discussion about the desirability and feasibility of building multi-perspectivist mental infrastructures in times of polycrises. We can consider four sources of inspiration to facilitate our dwelling: feminist standpoint theory (Sandra Harding), perspectivist anthropology (Eduardo Viveiros de Castro), investigative esthetics (Matthew Fuller & Eyal Weizman) and institutional psychotherapy (François Tosquelles, Jean Oury).
Insight Series: Building partnership across discipines
Tuesday 2 December, 11am – 12pm, Online
In this Insight Series session, will share her experience of working across disciplines to develop a programme of impactful and exciting research on human ageing.
Gemma is based at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Queen's University Belfast, a hub for open-minded and creative scholars.
Her team have devised projects that use material culture to explore longevity, fiction to explore dementia, and film to excavate old eccentrics in British film.
Gemma also works with medics and pharmacists to explore medicine use, and on the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study of Ageing.