!!The Anthropocene: from boundaries to bonds. Interdisciplinary crossovers in knowledge development
__Conference Date:__ 19-20 October 2023\\
__Conference venue:__ University of Science and Technology, H-14 building, Wrocław, Poland\\
__Conference program:__ [Anthropocene conference program|Program Anthropocene 10.10.2023.pdf]\\
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__Our conference aims at investigating the potential of inter/trans/multidisciplinary alliances in research on the
Anthropocene and the importance of such disciplinary border-crossings for producing knowledge that can not
only meet the challenges of the scientific kind, but also be transferrable to the social sphere. The Anthropocene
defies the cognitive, imaginative, affective and ethical systems underlying our perception and understanding
of reality. We propose to see the knowledge on/of the Anthropocene as a borderland where many turning points
(crises) meet and coalesce. Such a perspective exposes the necessity to think beyond the dualisms
of science/humanities. The project seeks spaces for mutual inspirations and new bonds between systems,
methods and classes governing science and knowledge. __
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Live transmission [link|https://youtube.com/live/koCTw4mcj6E]
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In particular, we invite crossing disciplinary boundaries. While expert knowledge remains at the core of examining
the Anthropocene, its resultant commitment to devise guidance for policy makers and to develop social awareness
based on verified knowledge requires involvement from other fields of expertise. Scholarship tackling the
Anthropocene spans, apart from earth sciences, social science, the humanities, human geography, and other
disciplines. By bringing together scholars from many areas of research inquiry, the seminar aims at exploring
the possibility of inter- and multidisciplinary scholarly work on developing accountable knowledge that needs
to be subsequently translated into social and cultural narratives. How do we cooperate across the boundaries
within academia, in politics and social organizations as we strive to address the Anthropocene?
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That the Anthropocene poses an unprecedented challenge urging political action at global and local levels has
been already evidenced by activists, NGOs, political groups and researchers across the world. Governance
models so far have been involved in the crucial conflict between the harshness of data forecasting catastrophic
scenarios and the fear to decrease consumption and extraction of resources. How do we create new ways
of relating (intra- and interspecies) and turn the shattering experience of boundary-crossing into active
bond-making through science, politics and various forms of activism?
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We want to explore what narratives are being developed to provide viable solutions at the level of politics and
governance, including institutions for educating society and expanding the civic sense of responsibility and new
planetary awareness. What new lexicons are being developed to accommodate the cognitive, ethical and ontological
challenges of the planet in crisis? What new forms of thinking, doing and telling do we need to create
a new semiotics of crisis, catastrophe, accountability, agency, and hope that cannot be contained within the
known paradigm of human mastery of the earth? How do we confront the limits of our understanding and devise
new ways of sense-making in light of (rather than despite) the Anthropocene? How to promote knowledge based
on the idea of reciprocity?

!ORGANIZERS: 

* Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre. Academic Research Centre, Faculty of Letters, [University of Wrocław|https://uwr.edu.pl/en]
*[Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub|https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl]

!PARTNERS:

*Academy of Young Scientists and Scholars
*[Academia Europaea Hubert Curien Fund|Acad_Main/Activities/Curien_Fund]
*Saxon State Ministry of Justice, Democracy, European Affairs and Equality
*[University of Wrocław|https://uwr.edu.pl/en]
*[Wrocław University of Science and Technology|https://pwr.edu.pl/en]
*Erasmus Mundus International Master: Children's Literature, Media & Culture 
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 Program of the conference: [download|https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Program-ANTHROPOCENE-10_18_2023.pdf]