AIAS and CEH Reading Group: Abetting Everyday Harms
A joint semester-long initiative by AIAS and CEH, the Abetting Everyday Harms reading group at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
Info about event
Time
Location
AIAS, Building 1630 room 301
On the Abetting Everyday Harms reading group
This reading group will explore the concepts of moral complicity (and implication, its close cousin) by bringing together writings from multiple disciplines such as literary studies, law, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, and history. We are seeking similarly interdisciplinary reading group participants from all levels of seniority within and beyond the university.
Climate Change-related Complicity and Conceptual Complicity
Our exploration of complicity is focused on climate change, but at the same time draws from a broad and foundational conceptual base. This mixture is reflected in the readings, some of which are devoted to the concept of complicity itself and some of which are focused on climate in particular. The aim is to set a moderate and achievable amount of reading for shared interdisciplinary discussion which can act as a framework for further individual reading.
The initial few sessions will have set content but the organisers will welcome suggestions for additions later in the semester so that the program reflects collective interests as they develop.
Unexpected Complicity
We are particularly interested in the ways in which complicity shows up in unexpected ways in our life and work, and hope to think about what less complicit processes could look like. We are particularly interested in the role of cultural production and intellectual methodologies as sites of complicity and of its representation.
We aim to develop a framework for interdisciplinary discussion both of the problem of complicity and of how we might move beyond, through, or past it. We are interested not only in why we necessarily abet everyday harms, but also in how we might learn to abet them a little less.
READINGS
The material for this Friday 12 January session can be accesed through the links below:
Rosiek, J. L., Snyder, J., & Pratt, S. L. ‘The New Materialisms and Indigenous Theories of Non-Human Agency: Making the Case for Respectful Anti-Colonial Engagement’. Qualitative Inquiry, 26(3-4), 331-346. (AU library link for Rosiek)
Humphrey, Caroline. ‘Reassembling individual subjects: Events and decisions in troubled times’. Anthropological Theory, 2008, Vol.8 (4), p.357-380. (AU Library Link for Humphrey)
TIME AND DATE OF NEXT SESSION
- Friday 12 January 2024, 12:15 - 13:45
LOCATION
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), building 1630 room 301; please meet at the entrance of AIAS and we will go together to the third floor informal meeting space.
ORGANIZERS
Co-organised by AIAS-COFUND MSCA Fellow Bridget Vincent in collaboration with the Center for Environmental Humanities (CEH: https://ceh.au.dk/).
CONTACT
Dr Bridget Vincent, AIAS-COFUND II Fellow
bridgetvincent@aias.au.dk
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies