Panel this Fri (April 10): More-than-human geographies of COVID-19 (free & open to the public)

[Libby Lunstrum]

Please join us this Friday (April 10) for a panel on: 

More-than-human geographies of COVID-19: Species, inequalities, vulnerabilities

This panel will generate a conversation across more-than-human geographies and geographies of conservation and the wildlife trade to shed light on the roots of the coronavirus, the politics of responding to it, and how it might reshape human-nonhuman relations.

 

Day/Time: April 10, 2020, 9:00 - 10:15 AM (MDT)

The talk is FREE & open to the public (you do not need to be a member of the AAG to join)

Join us at this link: AAG Panel More-than-human geographies of COVID-19

 

Panelists: 

• Rebecca Wong, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong
• Neel Ahuja, Feminist Studies Department & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program, UC Santa Cruz
• Bruce Braun, Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota
• Rosemary Collard, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
• Libby Lunstrum, School of Public Service, Boise State University
• Stephanie Rutherford, School of the Environment, Trent University

Questions for panelists include:

1. Roots of COVID-19: Given the information we have, how should we understand the roots of COVID-19? [What frameworks help us understand this crisis and how? What questions should we be asking?]
2. Response: How might COVID-19 and our response to it reshape human-nonhuman interactions?
   
3. Representation & Justice: How is understanding of COVID-19 and responses to it caught up in questions of representation? What would a more just discourse look like?
   
4. Further Connections: How could your work more broadly help us understand different facets of the novel coronavirus. Possible topics include:
   
• Porous and calcified borders and boundaries
• Intimacy and distance between humans and nonhumans
• Debates on environmental destruction, biodiversity, the wildlife trade, etc.
• Inequality, capitalism, and/or colonialism
5.  Broader, overarching question: What should a more-than-human research agenda of the covid-19 look like?
   

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Libby Lunstrum

Associate Professor

School of Public Service

Boise State University

Boise, ID, USA

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Libby Lunstrum

Associate Professor

School of Public Service

Boise State University

Boise, ID, USA