COMPOSTING Feminisms and Environmental Humanities 3: Pedagogies

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

Imagine the process of reading and writing as composting. Matters break down and re-emerge as new matters. In the spirit of a feminist politics of citation, how might we attune ourselves to the ways in which new ideas are always indebted to writings, readings and practices that have come before? What and how are feminist genealogies composted in and through the Environmental Humanities? What concepts are especially fruitful, and why? In what forms do these ideas re-emerge? How are these genealogies acknowledged? What ideas are yet to be added to the Science and Technology Studies (STS) compost pile?

Composting, as a feminist practice, has been taken up by a University of Sydney-based reading and research group of cross-institutional, trans-disciplinary scholars exploring the traces, legacies and intersections between inclusive feminisms and broad Environmental Humanities. Started by Dr Astrida Neimanis and Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton in September 2015, the Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities group wishes to connect with transnational composting kin through this open panel at 4S. STS & Environmental Humanities share many key feminist interlocutors and this panel is an opportunity for discussion of similarities and differences.

Sub Unit

• Papers for Open Panels / Composting Feminisms & Environmental Humanities

Chair

• Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Unversity of New England

Individual Presentations

• Making Academic Kin: Composting Subjectivities In Graduate Research - Blanche Verlie, Monash University; Sherridan Emery, University of Tasmania; Maia Osborn, Southern Cross University; Kim Beasy, University of Tasmania; Kevina Kezabu, University of Tasmania; Bianca Coleman, University of Tasmania; Jennifer Nicholls, James Cook University

• Art-science Activisms and Compost Methods for Common Worlds Pedagogies - Alicia Flynn, Melbourne Graduate School of Education (University of Melbourne)

• EcoFeminist Fridays: towards slow academia - Hayley Singer, University of Melbourne

• Audio Journeys, Visualisation and Dark Lessons - Julie Vulcan, Western Sydney University

• Catalyst actors and sub politics enacted in gender balance reforms in/of academic institutions - Vivian Anette Lagesen, NTNU; Siri Øyslebø Sørensen, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)

Session Organizer

• Lindsay Kelley, UNSW Art & Design