Decolonial Poetics and Ecology Workshop
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
This workshop and reflection space is organised by the Critical Poetics and Ecology research network, a grouping of poets, practitioners and writers who work poetically on their research relating to ecologies. The Critical Poetics and Ecology network specifically engages with decolonial frameworks toward language, thought, narrative, and sense, working to situate these in the field of critical ecologies. Doing so, we facilitate practical and theoretical spaces of encounter with the (natural) world. For Spring 2026, we have been convening around the topic of "archives." Where might we seek decolonial world-making in the archives of ecology? How might we collaborate toward a critical poetics of ecological histories? What futures might these histories contain? For this workshop, we ask you to bring an archival document/object with ecological relevance from any period. Come prepared to critique, listen and fabulate poetically. Not a poet? Not a problem! This event requires attention to language, a curiosity for ecologies, and a critical engagement with the ideas buried and encoded in received narratives.
Contact name: Sue Wiseman
Speakers- Dr Penn Newell
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