Käte Hamburger Lecture mit Fellow Sana Chavoshian
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Universität des Saarlandes,
Innovation Center A2 1,
Seminarraum 3.05.1
SPRACHE
ENGLISCH
PROGRAMM
Das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE) und das CEUS | Cluster für Europaforschung laden herzlich zur Käte Hamburger Lecture an der Universität des Saarlandes ein. Im Fokus der Vortragsreihe stehen aktuelle Forschungspositionen der CURE Fellows zu kulturellen Praktiken der Reparation. Nach den Vorträgen können die vorgestellten Themenschwerpunkte in einer öffentlichen Diskussionsrunde vertieft werden.
Sana Chavoshian: A Mesopotamian Re(s)pair: Dusty Experimentations in the Marshes Amidst War and Sanctions
What is the role of photosynthesis in native and indigenous reparational politics? How does dust in the wind unsettle the nature/culture binary and underpin the emergence of new atmospheric collectives? In her presentation, Sana Chavoshian places this dust-wind at the centre of an ethnographic engagement with multi-species encounters and affective resonances that shape a green future in the dried-out beds of the Mesopotamian Marshes located in the war-torn borderlands of Iran and Iraq. While reviving the marshlands was an internationally funded project after the fall of the Ba’th regime in Iraq, supported by several European initiatives, the conservation of the Iranian side of the marshlands is faced with restraining economic sanctions. Chavoshian’s research shows how the oil-rich marshlands have become a laboratory for ecological experiments shaped by the devastation of war and the pressures of sanctions. In these zones, engineers, scientists, environmental activists, farmers, and traders cooperate and compete to control the air. Drawing on the processes of respiration and photosynthesis, Chavoshian explores the contours of greening from plantation to rehabilitation and revival as they elude particular habitual knowledge and sensory practices. Social life here grows in the fractures and wreckage of structurally violent worlds, where militarised biospheres produce far-reaching ecological effects.
Die Käte Hamburger Lectures bieten einen Einblick in die aktuellen Forschungsarbeiten des Kollegs, tragen diese in die Universität hinein und laden die interessierte Öffentlichkeit zu einer Diskussion über kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation ein.
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