The Department of Ecological Anthropology invites you to the fourth seminar of the new seminar series. Our next talk, by Juno Salazar Parreñas, is entitled " 'Living Off an Overworked Planet: Dairy cows, ex-circus lions and tropical polar bears'" (see the abstract below). The event will take place in Prague on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, commencing at 14:00 (CET) in the conference room on the fifth floor at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. You are invited to attend in person at the IE CAS, or online via Microsoft Teams. To register for the seminar, please click here.

Abstract: We all know that something is profoundly wrong with the planet. Where and how did it go wrong? This project answers this question by telling three short stories about long lives on an overworked planet. The first story is about dairy cows in Europe since the Holocene around 20,000 years ago. The second is about lions in South Africa since centuries of settler colonialism.  The third is about tropical polar bears living in the air-conditioned nation of Singapore that was founded decades ago during the Great Acceleration. This talk is based on ongoing ethnographic and archival research.

Juno Salazar Parreñas is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University (USA) and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute (Klosterneuberg, Österreich). She wrote Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press) and edited Gender: Animals (Macmillan Reference USA).

We hope to see you in Prague or online!