The History of Consciousness earthecologies x technoscience conversations and the Science and Justice Research Center are pleased to invite you to the following talk entitled Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments with Jaco de Swart (MIT, Visiting Scholar at Science and Justice Research Center). This event will take place May 7th […]

The University of Michigan possesses extensive archival, photographic, archaeological and natural history collections from the Philippines, many of which were built during the American colonial period from objects, images, and ancestors taken without the consent of local source communities. This talk introduces a multi-year, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty, curators, collection managers, students, and community […]

In this talk, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt Press, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of […]

The History of Consciousness department, in collaboration with the Humanities in the Age of AI Cluster, is pleased to present "From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World" delivered by Giuseppe Longo. The talk will take place April 21st at 1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210, with a virtual attendance option available. To attend virtually, […]

This talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: […]