Forestry and UBC Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program: Guest lecture and workshop
The Anthropocene as an environ-mental crisis
Dr Uwe Voigt, Augsburg University, Germany
Monday, November 4, 12:00 pm
Caseroom, # 2916, Forest Sciences Centre
There is little doubt that the Anthropocene comes about as a complex crisis of our physical environment. Our human attempts to deal with this crisis are impeded by manifold crises of our own, on different levels, ranging from the psychological to the geo-political. Grounded on heterodox readings of panpsychism and the Gaia hypothesis, this paper argues: We do not have to deal with sheer coincidence; the Anthropocene also effects our mental environment, leading to a crisis of global narcissism. In the final analysis, there might be only one crisis: an environ-mental one.
A Workshop on Dead Wood Ambivalences of a Cultural Ecosystem Service in the Anthropocene
Dr. Uwe Voigt and Dr. Joachim Rathmann
Augsburg University, Germany
Monday, November 4, 1:15 – 3:45 pm
FSC 1220, Forest Sciences Centre
In the Anthropocene, the ecological and also cultural importance of dead wood becomes ever more highlighted. At the same time, dead wood keeps provoking very ambivalent ways of perception – ranging from ugly to beautiful. In which ways is dead wood perceived today? (How) is this linked with the acknowledged usefulness of dead wood? And what does this tell about dead wood from the perspectives of the aesthetics and philosophy of nature?
The lecture and the workshop are organized by the Faculty of Forestry and the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program at UBC.