Reminder Alexander von Humboldt Lecture: Prof. Sarah Whatmore

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Ernste, H. (Huib)

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Nov 28, 2011, 3:54:08 AM11/28/11

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Today the planner/human geographer/environmental scientist Sarah Whatmore will be visiting Nijmegen as Alexander von Humboldt Lectuerer.

Sarah did her BA in human geography, did a M.Phil in Town Planning, a Phd in geography and worked as Professor of Environmental Geography at the open University. Currently she holds a professorship at the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University.

Her research focuses on the relations and engagements between people and nature. In her work she focuses on the spatial habits of thought that inform the ways in which these relations are formed and practiced in the conduct of science, governance and everyday life. She has published widely on the theoretical and political implications of these questions.

See also: http://socgeo.ruhosting.nl/humboldt

Program:

Monday Nov. 28, 2011 18:00-19:30 Alexander von Humboldt Lecture: Practicing more-than-Human Geographies: Thinking with/through materials
LuX Mariënburg 38-39
Room: 6

Abstract: The momentum of so-called ‘post-humanist’ approaches in the humanities and social sciences is on the rise, turning attention to the unfamiliar social agency of ‘things’ from animals to mobile phones. This lecture examines the distinctive contributions of recent currents in geographical research that insist on and amplify the more-than-human composition of social practices, relations and landscapes. Work in this vein reinvigorates cultural geographers’ traditional interests in material culture through conversations with Science and Technology Studies and Political Theory. Focussing on the ways implications of such approaches for research practice, the lecture will be illustrated by examples of research on food networks, urban ecologies and environmental knowledge controversies.

Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011 10:45-13:30 Masterclass: The methodological implications of ‘doing’ more-than-human styles of research
Thomas van Aquinostraat 8
Room: 8.K.15
Master Class with Prof. Sarah Whatmore focusing on the example of environmental knowledge controversies as a critical nexus between geographical practice and Isabelle Stengers’ notion of ‘cosmopolitics’ + Bruno Latour’s notion of ‘dingpolitik’

Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011, 10:45-12:30 Workshop with Prof. Sarah Whatmore
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3
Room: 3.01.25
Two current ongoing research projects in field of Spatial Planning and Environmental Politics are presented and discussed with Sarah Whatmore.
One project is about: the organisation and institutionalisation of regional science-policy interfaces and practices to produce scientific knowledge to deal with the challenges of climate adaptation in the Netherlands, the other one on: Slow-Food Movements (see: http://slowfood.ruhosting.nl/)