Framing Law & Humanities in/from the Global South
Our two-day event "Framing Law and Humanities in/from the Global South" consisted of an opening roundtable and a discussion panel. The first session sought to broaden the horizons of the Law and Humanities critical paradigm, and the second centered on the juridical personhood of nature, nonhuman rights, and the role of cultural production in conceptualizing these […]
Filmscreening of Ana Vaz’s “Apiyemiyekî?”
Pigott Hall 252materia’s first event of the 2022-2023 academic term took place on September 29. It centered on the filmscreening of Ana Vaz’s short filmApiyemiyekî?, commissioned as a response to the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). Vaz works with an extraordinary archive from Brazilian educator and indigenous rights activist, Egydio Schwade ―over 3000 drawings collected during a literacy […]
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Poetry, Poetics, and Climate Change
Pigott Hall 252Gustavo Carvajal (Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile) and Azucena Castro (Stockholm University/Stanford University) discussed the relationship between poetry, poetics and climate futures with the notion of narratives of the socio-technical. This second event in the 2022/2023 academic term took place on October 20 at Pigott Hall.
Literatures of Planetary Thresholds
Pigott Hall 252Literatures of Planetary Thresholds When: Thursday, November 17th, at noon. Where: Pigott Hall 252. Watch here Christian Galdón Literature facing Gaia Building my reflection around the example of Christian Bök's The Xenotext, Vivian Abenshushan's Permanente Obra Negra and Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia I point out the challenges that Literature faces when integrating and materializing the ontological turn (Descola) practiced by other human sciences […]
Wetlands in Art & Theory
Pigott Hall 252The webinar consisted in a conversation between: Artist and curator Camila Marambio, founder and director of Ensayos, a collective research practice centred on de-extinction, multispecies dialogues, coastal health and peatland protection. The peatland research done by Ensayos gave rise to Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol, the Chilean pavilion at the 59th venice Biennale, curated by Marambio, […]
Literature and Expenditure
Pigott Hall 252A panel with Jaime Rodríguez Matos (CSU, Fresno) and Romina Wainberg (Stanford University). About the event: To Get Out of Our Human Nook: Chance, Thinking, Literature in the Anthropocene Recent interventions concerning the link between the humanities and the Anthropocene have returned to well-known literary tropes for the de-centering of the human point of view vis-à-vis "Nature" and the world. I […]
Reading Session: narratives of the sociotechnical
Pigott Hall 252An informal conversation on pre-circulated texts pertaining to our year's theme. Reach out to us for the texts. Thank you!
International Conference: narratives of the sociotechnical
materia International Symposium Date: Friday, May 5th 9am-5pm; Saturday, May 6th 9am-12:30pm, 2023 Place: Bolívar House (Center for Latin American Studies), 582 Alvarado Row RSVP Description: On May 5th and May 6th, the DLCL Research Unit materia will be hosting a two-day symposium, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and art practitioners to discuss […]
Hybrid Roundtable Reading Session: Latour & Schultz’s “On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: a Memo”
Pigott Hall 252𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊 is thrilled to invite you to our first event of the 2023-24 academic year: a hybrid roundtable discussion of "On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: a Memo", by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz, in collaboration with Bio/Geo/Cosmopolíticas and NYU - Buenos Aires. The event will be held on Thursday, November 30th, at 9am PST/ 14h BsAs. This international panel […]
Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Research Fair
Bolivar House 582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA, United StatesDear all, materia is thrilled to announce our first event of 2024, an Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Research Fair. materia is a DLCL Research Unit focused on anthropodecentrisms, Latin Americanist and otherwise. Our 2023-24 yearly theme is narratives of the sociotechnical: infrastructure, telos, and scale. What: a unique opportunity to engage with advanced graduate students currently working with environmental humanities […]
Panel with Diana Montaño and Dhanashree Thorat: Collaboration with CPADA
Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn February 27, materia will be hosting a panel in collaboration with “Colonialism, Post, and Anti, in the Digital Age (CPADA).” Diana Montaño (Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis) will be presenting with Dhanashree Thorat (Assistant Professor of English, Mississippi State University). The event will take place at 5:30pm at the Stanford […]
Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning
Pigott Hall 252This talk focuses on queer performance art that foregrounds female pleasure in land defense and in re-imagining a world organized by desires other than profit, amid the rise of subjunctive aesthetic modes in environmentalist culture. CAROLYN FORNOFF is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University and the author of Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production […]
Differential Dispossession and the Rise of (European) White Indigeneity
Pigott Hall 216A discussion of White Counterreformation from the perspective of Rising Seas | Melting Glaciers to demonstrate the ongoing conditions of geontopower as the ecological catastrophes begun in colonialism start seeping into European soils. ELIZABETH POVINELLI is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University, as well as a Corresponding Fellow of the […]
Introducing the New Humanities in Europe
Pigott Hall 252In this lecture, building on the recent publication of The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities, Italian philosopher Rosi Braidotti maps out the impact of so-called “post-” human thought in European academic institutions. How does this sweeping phenomenon interface with recent developments in capitalism and nationalism in the continent? To what extent is it […]
Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty: ““Climate Change and the Politics of Difference”
Pigott Hall 252materia is thrilled to announce our fourth and final meeting this quarter: a talk this Friday, May 24 by esteemed Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty: “Climate Change and the Politics of Difference." His talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the author, moderated by our team. Professor Chakrabarty teaches in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the […]
