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<div align="center"><font size="+3"><b>Vegetal Mediations: Plant
Agency in Contemporary Art and Environmental Humanities</b></font><br>
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<div align="center">Central European University Budapest<br>
B Auditorium, Nádor utca 15<br>
5-6 May 2017<br>
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Keynote speaker:<b> Michael Marder</b><br>
Author of<i> Plant Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life</i><br>
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Rather than mere passive bystanders to history, plants act as agents,
mediating relations both among people and between people and their
environments, knowledge, markets, and politics, as well as serving as
go betweens in non-human spheres. This conference explores the
response of artists, writers and theorists to manifestations of plant
agency considered through vegetal non-cognitive thought and
non-representational memory, plant ethics and rights, and the
relationship of humans and plants in the Anthropocene. It asks
whether, moving beyond an anthropocentric concern with the
instrumental value of plants, the vegetal world might offer models for
coexistence and planetary being with relevance for human society,
politics and economics. Considering also the knowledge of indigenous
and ancient traditions about plants as co-members of the natural
world, the conference highlights a range of intellectual and sensorial
encounters with vegetation, focussing especially on the engagements of
contemporary art with plant agency.<br>
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Speakers include:<b> Monika Bakke</b> (Adam Mickiewicz University
in Pozna),<b> Isabel Hoving</b> (Leiden University),<b>
Khadija von Zinnenberg Carroll </b>(University of Birmingham),<b>
Patrícia Vieira</b> (Georgetown University, USA),<b> Uriel
Orlow</b> (artist, London),<b> Bo Zheng</b> (artist, Hong
Kong),<b> ˇpela Petriă</b> (artist, Ljubljana),<b> Chonja
Lee</b> (University of Bern),<b> Ĺsa
Sonjasdotter </b>(artist, Berlin),<b> Christiane
Erharter</b> (curator, Vienna),<b> Christine
Mackey</b> (artist, Ireland),<b> Lea Vene</b> (curator,
Zagreb) and<b> Sendy Osmiăeviç</b> (environmental scientist,
Zagreb),<b> Adéla Kremplová</b> (Czech Academy of
Sciences),<b> Tatiana Safonova</b> (Central European
University),<b> Ágnes Bakk</b> and<b> Bence György
Pálinkás</b> (artists, Budapest),<b> Stefan
Voicu</b> (Central European University),<b> Elizabeth
Loudon</b> (Central European University) and<b> Alan
Watt</b> (Central European University).<br>
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This conference is organised by the <a
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></span>Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative </a>(EAH) at
Central European University in collaboration with <a
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Humanities Initiative aims to create a common platform for academic
researchers, artists, and ecological activists creatively negotiating
planetary issues at the intersection between scientific and
humanities-based approaches to the environment. The conference
committee is made up of EAH members<b> Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes,
Alan Watt, Guntra Aistara</b> and<b> Hyaesin Yoon</b>. <br>
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For the conference programme, abstracts, speaker biographies and
registration details see:</div>
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<b>Our mailing address is:</b><br>
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<div align="center">Translocal Institute</div>
<div align="center">Budapest, Dembinszky Street 10, Hungary</div>
<div align="center">Budapest, Budapest 1071</div>
<div align="center">Hungary</div>
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