Animals in the Room: A presentation with Melanie Challenger

It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, the extinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the Earth, we look to emerging stories. In them we find the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.

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Writer and ethicist Melanie Challenger speaks to the framework of kinship and compassion that underpins Animals in the Room.

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SHIFTING LANDSCAPES: An Immersive Exhibition

During both weekends of the Shifting Landscapes Immersive Exhibition, we will be hosting a series of special events, including film screenings and conversations with the exhibition’s artists and Emergence contributors.

Writer and ethicist Melanie Challenger speaks to the framework of kinship and compassion that underpins Animals in the Room—a project exploring how animals can participate and be represented in the environmental and political decisions that affect them.Melanie Challenger works as a researcher and broadcaster across environmental history, bioethics, and philosophy of biology. Her books include How to Be Animal: What It Means to Be Human; Animal Dignity: Philosophical Reflections on Nonhuman Existence; and On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature, which received Santa Barbara Library’s Green Award for environmental writing. She hosts the podcast Enter the Psychosphere, on diverse intelligences in the natural world.This presentation is part of the special weekend event series held within Emergence Magazine’s SHIFTING LANDSCAPES immersive exhibition. Full event listings information can be found <a href="http://www.emergencemagazine.org/londonexhibition" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.The exhibition, open for a limited ten-day run 1-10 December 2023, features works by nine international artists that open our imaginations to our entanglement with the biosphere. Bearing witness to the Earth’s rapid transformations, this exhibition invites you to see, touch, hear, and breathe—to feel into and participate in—the spaces of connection and kinship held within. As these works draw us out of our human exceptionalism towards kinship with the living world, might we remember ourselves as an extension of the changing Earth? What seeds of reciprocity, of abundant mutual care, might take root?Tickets are not required for entry, but priority will be given to ticket holders.

Animals in the Room: A presentation with Melanie Challenger

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