Multibeing Eddies in a Global Churn

two circular images on a deep turquoise background with a light gradient. One images shows bullkelp just beneath the surface, the other rhubarb stems photographed looking up towards the underside of the leaves

A Keynote Conversation as part of 5 years at the FEELed Lab

WHEN: Friday, March 27, 4-6 PM

WHERE: Woodhaven EcoCulture Centre

WHAT: Join us for talks from two leading scholars in feminist environmental humanities – FEELed Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Sue Reid and queer ecologies founding scholar Professor Catriona Sandilands – as they share insights into current research projects and a conversation with each other and those gathered. This keynote conversation is part of our 5 years at FEELed Lab celebration.

Light refreshments will be served.

Check out our full schedule of 5 Years events here!

Limited space available! Register here: https://forms.gle/NpzvH2TwGaFKKbxM9

Multibeing Drifters (Meroplankton and Algal Mats) and the Ontological Violence of Extractive Governance

Sue standing in the muddle of a tidepool with the tide flowing in a white rush and gray clouds overhead

Dr. Susan Reid is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Critical and Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia and an environmental philosopher, writer, artist, and lawyer. Published essays include Multibeing Ocean, Ocean Justice: Reckoning with Material Vulnerability, Imagining Justice with the Abyssal Ocean, Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones, and the co-edited the volume Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive. She is a co-founder of the Deep Currents Collective and the online project Extracting the Ocean.

Sisterhood of the Travelling Plants: Rhubarb, Memory, Multibeing

Headshot of Cate Sandilands in front of tall pine trees looking forwards the sky. Cate is wearing a colorful black and red scarf and black glasses

Catriona Sandilands is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Her publications include the co-edited volume Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (Indiana, 2010) and the edited creative collection Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times (Caitlin, 2019) as well as recent writings on plants and vegetality in Antennae, Ecologies of Gender, Kin: Thinking With Deborah Bird Rose, On the Necessity of Gardening, Sex Ecologies, and the Cambridge Companion to the Environmental Humanities.