Join the More-than-human(ities) Lab for their final event of the year where they will reflect on what they have learned from the lab and dream of future possibilities for the cross-disciplinary community that they have built. Collaborative reflections and wishes will take place from 1-1:30pm. They will then close the lab by learning about the work of three of our early-career community members and offering them feedback. Clara Bergamini, Yagmur Kizilay, and Mary Jirmanus will participate in their final share session of the year. Light snacks will be provided.

Dr. Yağmur Kızılay, a Fulbright Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSC Literature Department, will be speaking on “An Exploration of Affective Dimension of the Environmental Narratives in the Blue Humanities in Raising Environmental Consciousness for the Preservation of Bodies of Water.”

Mary Jirmanus Saba, UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Film and Digital Media Department, will be speaking on transformative movements through the perspective of Lebanese philosopher Mahdi Amel. Regarding the possibilities of transformative movements, Amel wrote that in the colonized world, “the worker is a peasant,” attached to the village, and not untethered from the countryside. This ambivalent statement (which described Amel himself) is the provocation for thinking about how we all might relate to the land, and transformative politics.

Clara Bergamini, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, will share a quick preview of her dissertation chapter, currently titled “Contextualizing an Urban Catastrophe.” The bulk of her dissertation looks at the social and political history of the 1923 Kantō earthquake that destroyed most of Tokyo and all of Yokohama. However, the goal for this particular chapter is to position it more firmly in environmental humanities through an examination of both the socio-political and environmental circumstances that laid the groundwork for the catastrophe.