The symposium Environmental History investigates the interactions between humans and the “natural world,” focusing on how non-human entities and multispecies ecologies can transform the understanding of agency in historical and contemporary narratives.
For its fifth edition, the symposium will interrogate the relationship between myth-making and historiography, through the concept of “Mythological Machines.”
Speakers will include: Sabine Barles (urban planner), Déborah Bucchi (comparative literature), Grégory Chatonsky (artist), Alfonse Chiu (writer, curator, designer), Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha (artist), Lionel Devlieger (engineer-architect and historian), Julien d’Huy (historian and mythologist), Jeanne Etelain (philosopher), Vincent Giovannoni (chief curator), Rachel Kay (doctoral researcher in social anthropology), Corentin Laplanche-Tsutsui (artist and filmmaker), Nastassja Martin (anthropologist), Fredj Moussa (artist and filmmaker), Josèfa Ntjam (artist), Wilfried N’Sondé (writer and musician), Christelle Oyiri (artist and DJ), Verena Paravel (artist and filmmaker), Grégory Quenet (historian)
Note: Certain conferences will be held in French, others in English.
Simultaneous translation will be available for attendees.
