Environmental History V

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: Norman Ajari (philosopher), Sabine Barles (urban planner), Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha (artist and filmmaker), Grégory Chatonsky (artist), Jeanne Etelain (philosopher), Julien d’Huy (historian and mythologist), Nastassja Martin (anthropologist and author), Wilfried N’Sondé (writer), Josèfa Ntjam (artist), Verena Paravel (artist), and many others.