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fascinating! i hope our extinction studies group will have a presence there!! we should have some flyers for our book by the time of the conference... cheers, deb. On 2 November 2015 at 03:52, BASTIAN Michelle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > FYI > > > > -- > > Dr Michelle Bastian > > Chancellor’s Fellow, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape > Architecture > > Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh > > Level 1, Room 303B The Maltings > > 20-22 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JZ > > Phone: 0131 651 5779 > > Email: [log in to unmask] > > Website: www.michellebastian.net > > > > *From:* PATRIZIO Andrew [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > *Sent:* 01 November 2015 08:36 > *To:* > *Subject:* [eehn] CfP: Association of Art Historians Conference, > Edinburgh 7-9 April 2016 > > > > Dear all, > > > > There is a CfP’s deadline of 9 November 2015 for this interesting panel at > next year’s AAH. > > > > *At the World’s End: Contemporary art, visual culture and extinction > studies* > > > > Details and links pasted below. > > > > Andrew > > > > > > http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session8 > > > > Convenor: > > *Andrés David Montenegro Rosero*, Bridgewater State University, > [log in to unmask] > > According to recent reports, Earth is on the verge of a cataclysmic > climactic change that threatens the existence of all life in the planet. As > explored by the *Extinction Marathon *– a two-day multidisciplinary > encounter of artists, scientists, filmmakers, theorists, and other cultural > practitioners organised by the Serpentine Gallery and artist Gustav Metzger > in 2014 – if the age fuelled by fossil extraction continues unchecked we > will be headed towards a collapse on a planetary scale. Other important > contributions to the topic have been the exhibitions* Radical Nature* > (2009), *Animism* (2012),* Rights of Nature *(2015), or Metzger’s *Mass Media:todayandyesterday.co.uk > <http://todayandyesterday.co.uk>* (2014); the artistic practices of Tue > Greenfort, Bill Burns, Subhankar Banerjee, Pieter Hugo, Eduardo Kac, > Patricia Piccinini, Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison, Ravi Agarwal, > or George Osodi, among others. > > This panel explores the role that culture plays in relation to today’s > manifold ecological crises. Facing this grim future head-on, it > investigates how contemporary exhibitions, installations, and works of art > have confronted the politics of climate change, the continuous destruction > of ecosystems, habitat and species loss, and global warming. How have > varied cultural products critically engaged biotechnology and the impending > catastrophe? How has contemporary art and visual culture contributed to the > study of the relationship between the Rights of Nature and Human Rights? > > - See more at: > http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session8#sthash.j3smMouq.dpuf > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- Professor Deborah B Rose http://deborahbirdrose.com Environmental Humanities Program Room 353, Morven Brown Building University of New South Wales NSW 2052 Australia https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-deborah-bird- <https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-deborah-bird-rose>rose <https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-deborah-bird-rose>