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Events from the 01 January 2026 - 31 December 2026 Reset
Disposal, Deferral, Doubt, Disavowal. Elements of a Politics of Suspension
The talk aims to explore mechanisms of suspension in contemporary societies. It seeks to map different elements of what could be called a politics of suspension. I suggest distinguishing four distinct – yet often connected and interrelated – modes of suspension: ontological, temporal, epistemic, and affective.
12 May 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CB-0008
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Elemental Commons: Pyropolitics and the Governance of the Flammable
This panel discussion explores pyropolitics as a critical lens for understanding how the management and manifestation of fire shape contemporary sovereign power and social space. As ‘we’ unevenly navigate the "Pyrocene," the panel seeks to theorise fire not merely as a geophysical hazard, but as a fundamental logic of territorial control, colonialism, and struggle in a heating world. Through diverse geographical scales, we aim to map how flames can both exert power and make possible resistance.
19 May 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
W309 (Geography)
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Infrastructural Dismantlings: On Harm and Repair in Polyphonic Assemblages
Proceeding through a series of interwoven stories that explore, in turn, enactments of the “prior” in a hydrology lab; the emergent biopolitics of a lock and dam; inscriptions and erasures of settler cosmotechnics; toxic ecologies of repair; and the geologics of (white) property, I argue for an ethics and politics of dismantling attuned to the diverse, entangled, and decidedly non-teleological spatial and temporal rhythms of environment-infrastructure.
20 May 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
W309 (Geography)
- Research event
- Department of Geography