[JFKI-News] Terra Symposium "Nature" in American Art since 1970... (May 19, 2020)

["Abteilung Kultur" <kultur@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We cordially invite you to this year’s Berlin Terra symposium, “Nature” in
American Art Since 1970: Reconceiving the Human-Nonhuman Relationship?
organized by Joshua Shannon (Terra Visiting Professor). The event will be
streamed online via Webex on May 19, 2020, 4.30 pm-7 pm.


Exploring the intersection of art and climate change, the symposium asks
whether the art produced in the United States over the last fifty years
can help us model a new human-nonhuman relationship for the era of climate
change. Has recent American art imagined any viable alternative to the
modern idea of nature as the passive “other” to human agency, an object or
image to be exploited or protected by “man”? What role might art play in
the cultural transformation that will be necessary for stopping climate
change? The symposium brings together a small group of leading scholars
and invites them each, through close analysis of works of art, to propose
answers to these questions.

Please visit the event website for a detailed schedule and log-in details:
https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/faculty/culture/terra/Conferences/2020_Shannon/index.html

The symposium is free and open to the public. No registration required.
Event language is English.

Best wishes,
The Culture Department


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Culture Department
John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone +49 30 838 54240; FAX +49 30 838 45424
Phone hours: Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-noon and 2-4 p.m.

Attachment: Conference poster_2020-1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document