Co(w)-Evolution: Dairying from the Holocene to the Anthropocene in German Speaking Europe

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View this email in your browser Dear colleagues and friends, We kindly invite you to participate in our next KLI Colloquium, free & open to the public via Zoom. https://www.kli.ac.at/en/events/event_calendar/view/689 KLI HYBRID COLLOQUIUM   Thursday 6 June 2024, 3.00 pm (CET)   Talk title Co(w)-Evolution: Dairying from the Holocene to the Anthropocene in German Speaking Europe   Speaker: Juno Salazar Parreñas (Cornell University, Ithaka, New York)   To join our colloquium please use the Zoom link at: https://www.kli.ac.at/en/events/event_calendar/view/689   Topic description / abstract: Dairying is a deeply embedded form of cultural heritage spanning the geological era of the Holocene in western Europe, especially in the Alps. Meanwhile, agricultural industrialization of dairy and meat are found to have produced so much methane gas and carbon emissions, it is characterized as having a hefty “ecological hoofprint” instead of a “carbon footprint” following Tony Weis. In this contemporary context of climate breakdown, how is the deep co-evolutionary history of European dairy farming narrated and remembered, especially when we consider today’s market decline in dairy consumption within Europe as well as the pressure exercised on dairy farmers to adopt new and expensive technologies to increase yields in the name of sustainability? This talk approaches the long history of human-cow co-evolution in western Europe through an ethnographic and bio-cultural-historical approach.   Biographical note: Juno Salazar Parreñas is an Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University (USA). She is the author of Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, which received the 2019 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize from the Association of Feminist Anthropology.     https://www.kli.ac.at/en/events/event_calendar/view/689 Get in contact! The KLI is an independent center of advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences. The mission of the institute is to enable scientific reasoning that can contribute to understanding and sustaining life on Earth in its biological, cognitive, social, and cultural diversity.   The KLI supports research focusing on evolutionary theory, especially in its relation to development, cognition, and sustainability science, as well as on the history, philosophy, and social studies of science. Follow us on Twitter #KLIAustria Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.