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Hi all, Again, I want to share this upcoming event in London on 'conflict residue' - June 2nd! Please feel free to pass along. See attached for more details. Best, Ben Neimark RSVP link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conflict-residue-living-with-the-remnants-of-war-tickets-574838676957 *Conflict Residue: Living with the Remnants of War* *War doesn’t end with the silencing of gunshots. Its residue lingers and echoes in the atmosphere, soil, blood and tissue.* JUNE 2nd 4.30-7.30pm & Drinks Reception *Queen Mary University of London* Mile End Road Arts One Building, BLOC Cinema London E1 4NS If armed conflict is often caught by visual media as an image of a flashing explosion, its long tail is mediated through material remnants and leftovers, whose vibrant matter and traces shape the outlines of future conflicts and continue as vectors of history, toxicity, and waste. Such debris can be spectacularly visible or imperceptible to the naked eye, solid as metal shells or defused as carbon dioxide in the stratosphere, enormous or microscopic. No longer separable from the environment, debris and residue participate in its co-production, turning "nature" into the very media of war. Focusing our attention on the material residue of war and the environmental imagination that it produces, this event is organised around a conversation on the nature of war, the war on nature, and the inevitable contamination of the two concepts, which are becoming increasingly tangled. The event is dedicated to thinking of natural elements, the atmosphere, biome and organic matter as a modality intrinsic to the execution of military violence. It brings together writers, researchers and filmmakers to collaboratively interrogate the environmental ramifications of armed conflict and to speculatively examine the knowledge and imagination emanating from the residues of war. *Participants: Yasmin Fedda , Benjamin Neimark, Helene Kazan, Daniel Mann, and Emily Jacir* *With a special film screen of a ‘Letter to a Friend’ by Emily Jacir* A Queen Mary Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) event, Queen Mary University of London. Hosted in BLOC, QMUL’s new state of the art cinema. Senior Lecturer, School of Business Management Queen Mary, University of London Principal Investigator UKRI-ESRC: Concrete Impacts <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.concreteimpacts.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cb.neimark%40lancaster.ac.uk%7C37ae69e295984d4c201c08da71733eda%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C0%7C0%7C637947037022580154%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qFl4vd6Zj9BEeYNNd%2Fnb60XxJWrmsaztK9PbnFG4ahg%3D&reserved=0> Editor-in-Chief African Geographical Review <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rafg20/current> New book: Hottest of the Hotspots – Nov 2023 https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/hottest-of-the-hotspots [image: image.png] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CRIT-GEOG-FORUM, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/