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SUMMARY:Convivial futures: Living well together on a climate-ravaged plan
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DESCRIPTION:This interdisciplinary symposium will explore how we might re
 imagine mobility\, belonging and kinship amidst mounting ecological uphe
 avals\n\nOur current era of accelerating ‘ecocide’ marks a ‘double death
 ’ (Rose\, 2012) through the untimely obliteration of the ‘deep biologica
 l rivers that constitute entire species’ (Jones et al\, 2020\, p. 391)\,
  as well as the disruption of life’s capacity for regeneration. The soci
 o-ecological upheavals wrought by intensifying wildfires\, droughts\, fl
 oods and storms are also radically redefining ‘home’ for many earthlings
 \, with questions around what/where constitutes ‘home’\, who ought to be
  welcomed in a place and who is to be excluded becoming especially conte
 sted. Rigid binary constructs such as native/invasive are increasingly b
 eing deployed to reinforce ‘biopolitical landscapes of inferior and supe
 rior bodies’ (Subramaniam\, 2024\, p. 52). For instance\, from far-right
  movements and governments violently militarizing borders\, vilifying mi
 gration and ‘outsiders’\, to hubristic ‘invasion biology’ conservation d
 iscourses and practices seeking to police boundaries between ‘native’ an
 d ‘invasive’ species. However\, mobility\, far from being anomalous\, is
  “a recurrent rhythm fundamental to our planet’s dynamism\, where change
  is the welcome constant rather than feared\, controlled\, and villainiz
 ed” (Tran et al\, 2025\, p. 50). Sustainable futures require more fluid 
 biogeographies (Lorimer\, 2008) that celebrate the dynamism of terrestri
 al life\, and open\, rather than foreclose\, possible ecological futures
  (Head\, 2011\, p. 174).\n\nAs such\, this symposium seeks to foster int
 erdisciplinary discussions and collaborations on how we might reimagine 
 mobility\, belonging and kinship in a world in flux. How can we create m
 ore capacious and caring stories of community and belonging\, attendant 
 to the trials as well as joys of living together? How to foster more wel
 coming environments for unanticipated visitors and strangers\, human and
  otherwise\, increasingly in search of new dwelling places?\n\n*Coffee\,
  tea and lunch will be provided\n\nThis event is hosted by Sustainabilit
 y@SEED\, a steering group based in the University of Manchester's School
  of Environment\, Education and Development (SEED). Sustainability@SEED 
 features representatives across all five SEED departments\, and works to
  facilitate collaborations amongst SEED staff and students for promoting
  and embedding transformative sustainability across relevant school acti
 vities. Symposium programme:\n\n9:30 – 10:00 – Welcome\, coffee\n\n10:00
  – 11:30 – Session 1: ‘(Re)thinking the theory and practice of sustainab
 le lifeworlds’\n\n‘Rupture and the Psychic Infrastructure of Convivial F
 utures’ - Mark Carrigan\n‘Green Roots\, Global Voices: Migration\, Faith
  and Community Leadership in Urban Sustainability’ – Saima Ansari (Susta
 inable Consumption Institute)\n‘Biocultural conservation for convivial f
 utures: Exploring the experiences of the Inclusive Conservation Initiati
 ve’ – Natalie D. L. York (Research Associate\, Global Development Instit
 ute)\n\n11:30 – 11:45 – Coffee break\n\n11:45 – 13:00 – Session 2: ‘Livi
 ng better together on campus’: outdoor session at Jen O'Brien's allotmen
 t (Contingency plan in case of poor weather – Group visit to the ‘Human 
 Natures’ exhibit @ Manchester Museum)\n\n13:15 – 14:15 – Lunch\n\n14:15 
 – 15:45 – session 3: ‘Multispecies conviviality in pedagogy and practice
 ’\n\n'Learning from and with Noongar Boodja with Nownaup Bush University
 : Reflections on virtual fieldtrips and place-based learning at Universi
 ty of Manchester’ - Alison Browne\, Susan Brown\, Raichael Lock and MA E
 dSE students\n‘Seeds of a Better Tomorrow: Reterritorializing Wetlands i
 n Santiago de Chile’ - Edward Ephithite Lindholm (Social Anthropology\, 
 SoSS)\n‘Treemarkable as kith and kin: nurturing cultures of coexistence 
 in a Moss Side school’ – Raichael Lock (MIE)\, Ryan Woods (SALC)\n\n15:4
 5 – 16:00 – Thank you & next steps
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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