Natural disasters are dramatically transforming landscapes across continents, fundamentally changing the ways we feel and experience these environments. This conference takes an interdisciplinary and experiential approach to understanding transformation in the aftermath of such events, rethinking resilience and vulnerability via ethics of care, interdependence, and possibility. It gathers anthropologists, artists, environmental humanities scholars, and others to explore the embodied and sensory experiences and memories that linger in post-disaster realms.
What does it mean to live in a landscape or an environment that remembers catastrophe – to walk through it, breathe its air, listen to its silences?
The conference aims to ponder how experimental, philosophical and creative research practices may provide us a way to get to know these environments from “inside” the disaster, while opening up paths for more compassionate responses and holistic interpretations. It accentuates two main themes: environmental change and landscape after natural disasters and methodological approaches to changes, especially experiential/phenomenological and sensorial.
The event is organised around the Horizon MSCA postdoctoral project “Deep mapping post-disaster becoming: through the silence of a wounded landscape” (DeepLandS – 101205129), in collaboration with ongoing departmental projects (SonarCities and DigiFREN). It also celebrates the department’s 85th anniversary and the University of Ljubljana Week.
Registration:
To follow the conference online, registration is required.
To register, please click here.
Organising Committee:
Prof. Dr Rajko Muršič, full professor
Dr Nevena Tatović, MSCA fellow
Dr Nežka Struc, assistant researcher
Assistants:
Alenka Gosarič, student
Anja Vatovec, student
We gratefully acknowledge Dr. Sandi Abram and Andraž Magajna
for their kind assistance with Zoom coordination and technical support.
For any enquiries, please email
nevena.tatovic@ff.uni-lj.si or nezka.struc@ff.uni-lj.si.