Schedule 2022

DateTopicReading
19 January 2022Multispecies TemporalitiesGan, E. 2021: Diagrams: Making Multispecies Temporalities Visible
26 January 2022Critical perspectives on MSEBüscher, B., 2021: The nonhuman turn: Critical reflections on alienation, entanglement and nature under capitalism
2 February 2022Convivial ConservationBüscher, B. & R. Fletscher, 2019: Towards Convivial Conservation
9 February 2022Paper presentationVehrs: The Gardawan Kura: Peripatetic Animal Performers in Northern Nigeria
16 February 2022Paper presentationDieckmann: The Etosha National Park and the Haiǁom – Thinking with relations and prospects for future conservation
23 February 2022RewildingLorimer et al., 2015: Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics
Fieldwork breakFieldwork break
27 April 2022Resuming from fieldworkReports about our research experiences and possible future projects
4 May 2022MSE MethodsWels, H. 2020: Multi-species ethnography: methodological training in the field in South Africa
11 May 2022MSE MethodsPlessis, P 2022: Tracking Meat of the Sand
Noticing Multispecies Landscapes in the Kalahari
18 May 2022MSE MethodsLee, J & T. Ingold, 2006: Fieldwork on Foot: Perceiving, Routing, Socializing
25 May 2022MSE Literaturevan Dooren, T. 2014: Flight Ways
Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
1 June 2022MSE LiteratureSwanson, H.A. 2017: Methods for multispecies anthropology: thinking with salmon otoliths and scales. Social Analysis
8 June 2022MSE Literaturevan Dooren, T. & D. Bird Rose, 2016: Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds
13 June 2022Presentationvan Dooren, T.: A World in a Shell: Research Seminar on Multispecies Studies with Thom van Dooren
14 June 2022Guest lecture résuméThom van Dooren
22 June 2022MSE Literaturede Wolff (2017): Plastic Naturecultures
29 June 2022Feminist studies and MSEBarad, K. 2003: Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
13 July 2022Ecological invasions in the SA (political) contextComaroff, J. 2017: Invasive Aliens: The Late-Modern Politics of Species Being
20 July 2022MSE, Ethics and ActivismGiraud, E. 2019: What Comes after Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion.
Introduction
27 July 2022ERC MeetingPublication Retreat
3 August 2022The pluriverse as a matter of careBlaser M. & M. de la Cadena, 2018: Introduction: Pluriverse Proposals for a World of Many Worlds
10 August 2022MSE, Ethics and ActivismGiraud, E. 2019: What Comes after Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion.
Reading: Full Book
17 August 2022MSE ClassicsKohn, E. 2007: How dogs dream: Amazonian natures and the politics of transspecies engagement
24 August 2022OntologiesCarrithers, M. et al., 2010: Ontology Is Just Another Word for Culture
31 August 2022The ontological turn in the MSE contextKirksey, E. 2015: Species: a praxiographic study
6 September 2022Pre-fieldwork sessionWrap up of our readings and finally discussion before fieldwork
26 October 2022Online meeting: fieldwork in progressSharing experiences from the field and discussing MSE methods and methodology
30 November 2022Online meeting: fieldwork in progressSharing experiences from the field and discussing MSE methods and methodology
30 November 2022Online meeting: fieldwork in progressSharing experiences from the field and discussing MSE methods and methodology