Garden Futurity Roundtable Colloquium

Panel 2 The Poetics and Politics of the (Urban) Garden

• Speaker: Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

• Discussant: Felix Leung | Climate Change Fellow, The Nature Conservancy

• Moderator: Jamie Wang｜Research Assistant Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, Education University of Hong Kong

• Time: 12-3-2024 (Tue) 16:20~18:00

• Venue: Zoom
  
  

Abstract

Over the past months, colleagues and I have been busy “growing” a space for a cross-disciplinary conversation on “the garden”. We are now thrilled to announce that the 2024 “Garden Futurity” Virtual Roundtable Colloquium to be held on Tuesday, 3rd December is open for registration!! The roundtables foreground the garden, capaciously defined, as a vibrant ecological and aesthetic space of theory and praxis, connecting ecologies, societies, and more-than-human worlds in the face of climate change and geopolitical uncertainty.

How might viewing the garden through a more-than-human lens challenge the entrenched asymmetrical social, cultural, and techno-scientific power relations? How might the garden foster the community’s sense of rooting, and promote environmental sustainability? What alternative frameworks may (re)constitute gardens for a more regenerative future? 

We are immensely privileged and grateful to bring together eco-philosophers, multispecies anthropologist, ecologist, literary scholars, historians, climate change researchers, and art practitioners to respond to these complex and critical questions. If you are interested in collectively rethinking the garden, gardening, biodiversity, and ecological sustainability, come and join us!

For more information, please visit: https://www.ecogardenlab.com/events