Academics and artists explore the theme of entanglement.

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Entanglement

Human existence is inseparable from other entities. To be entangled doesn’t simply mean the intertwining of two distinct objects: "Entanglement suggests that the very ontology of entities emerges through relationality; the entities do not preexist their involvement” (Kirby 2011, 76). Viewing reality as emerging from entanglements offers new approaches to more-than-human ecologies, to how we produce and consume, to designing creative practices on new ontological and epistemological grounds, and to reimagining our political negotiations of common worlds.

While entanglements may promise multispecies recuperation, they also carry inherent risks tied to the inevitable consequences of human extractivism and the myth of exceptionalism. We encourage participants to experiment with ways of representing entanglements where "we are at stake to each other" (Haraway 2016, 55). The human role in precarious presents and futures emerges without the safety net of mastery over seemingly separate and controllable nonhuman realms: it is a process of becoming-with-in other planetary stories. The existence of Earth's dwellers depends on more-than-human entanglements.

Programme all times in Irish/British wintertime (GMT)

SESSION 1: SYMBIOSIS

9.00-9.05 Welcome Lukáš Senft, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Maruška Svašek, Queen’s University, Belfast

9.05-9.20 Hungry Hill - Michael Holly, Queen’s University Belfast

9.20-9.30 The Body That Holds: Entanglements with the Numinous - Kathryn Hummel, Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani

9.30-9.45 Chicken Shoes - Colette Casey, Queen’s University Belfast graduate

9.50-10.00 Discussion in breakout rooms

SESSION 2: Ursula K. Le Guin Creative Performance

10.00-11.00 Ursula K. Le Guin creative performance: Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips

The invited performance is named after the well-known American writer, poet, and polemist Ursula K. Le Guin who died in 2018. This yesr, the performance will be delivered by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips, authors of the hit ethnographic novel, Sugar (University of Toronto Press 2024). Edward Narain is a Fijian writer, researcher and political analyst whose work regularly appears in the Fiji Sun and Fiji Times. Tarryn Phillips is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor of Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University. Edward and Tarryn will be performing a short story – a deleted scene from Sugar - called ‘Tinkering’, a playful and poignant tale about a taxi driver named Avinesh as he tries to find a wheelchair for his diabetic mother against the odds. This will be followed by a short dialogue about the creative process of writing an ethnographic novel.

SESSION 3: RUPTURES/CONNECTIONS

11.00-11.15 Ghost Mines - James Davoll, Queen’s University Belfast

11.15-11.30 Disentangling the Family Archive - Arbër Qerka-Gashi, The Balkanism Project, London

11.30-11.45 The Nature Performs - Prashant Khattri, University of Allahabad, India

11.45-12.00 The Reflection of Fieldwork in Vietnam, Slovakia, and Czechia - Tereza Staňkovská, Charles University, Petra Nováková, Charles University Robert Repka, Charles University

12.00-12.15 Discussion in breakout rooms

SESSION 4: PLACE/LANDSCAPE

12.15-12.30 A place like you and me: Composing stories for transregional liminality -Campus Novel: Giannis Delagrammatikas, Yiannis Sinioroglou, Ino Varvariti

12.30-12.45 Treasure Hunters: Mudlarking and the Entanglement of Human and Nonhuman Histories - Annemarie Lopez, Walk Listen Create

12.45-13.00 The view from within: A (counter)visual essay at the window of the Indian university - Dina Zoe Belluigi, Queen’s University Belfast

13.00-13.15 Discussion in breakout rooms

13.15-13.45 Break

SESSION 5: PERFORMING BODIES

13.45-14.00 Dance: A knot of presence - Nahelli Chavoya, University of Limerick, Ireland 14.00-14.15 Peace, talk to me… - Melek Kaptanoglu, HAPP, QUB

14.15-14.30 The Entanglements of Actors and Audiences: An Ethnography of Theatregoing - Hanife Schulte

14.30-14.45 Discussion in breakout rooms

SESSION 6: OBJECTS

14.45-15.00 Extracting, Drying, Curating, and Freezing: Seed-Saving for the Apocalypse -Elisa Sofia Jimenez Borja, QUB

15.00-15.15 Inheriting Entanglements: Writing with Colonial Objects - Nandi Jola, Queen’s University Belfast, and Briony Widdis, Queen's University Belfast

15.15-15.30 Articulated Absences and Silenced Souvenirs: exploring Switzerland’s complicity in the trading of Nazi gold through a counter-archive - Vera Zurbrügg, Independent Scholar

15.30-15.45 “Orphan(ed) Feet” from a larger piece entitled “Finger(s)-Millet-Fieldwork-Photo: Scholarly Experiments in Use” - Priya R. Chandrasekaran, Liberal Arts and Anthropology at Juilliard

15.45-16.00 Discussion in breakout rooms

SESSION 7: RHYTHMS

16.00-16.15 Embodied Entanglements: Dancing Sound in the Dark - Srijaa Kundu, University of Limerick

16.15-16.30 Entanglement of the local and the global in traditional Irish community music-making - Rina Schiller, Queen’s University Belfast

16.30-16.45 Commonplace Entanglements - Leonie Hannan, Queen's University Belfast Liza Thompson, Bloomsbury Publishing

16.45-17.00 Discussion in breakout rooms

17.00-17.15 Closing remarks