Visiting researchers

In May 2021 we hosted David Schlosberg as a virtual visiting professor to SCI. In the course of this two-week ‘visit’ we held four events: 

• David gave the first SCI annual lecture, entitled ‘Material participation and sustainable practice’, which explored the idea of - and demand for - political participation that is just, prefigurative, sustainable, and based on material actions. What kind of politics is guerrilla gardening or installing community batteries? While there is a long history of material participation in social movements, recent movements incorporate a shift in relations between human and nonhuman as a political act. We will be posting the video of this in the near future.
• We also held a seminar entitled ‘That’s how the light gets in: In conversation with Sherilyn MacGregor and David Schlosberg’. This was a discussion based on an article by Sherilyn called ‘making matter great again’, which argued that much of the work on ‘sustainable materialism’, including David’s book with Luke Craven of that title, neglected the ecofeminist roots of this interest in everyday material practices and politics. View the conversation.  
• David also held a ‘master class’ on ‘from environmental to multispecies justice’ with PhD students and early career researchers at Manchester.  
• We also held a meeting to discuss potential future collaborations between scholars at the SCI and the Sydney Environment Institute, where David is the director, and it was clear there are various possible areas of converging interests we will keep exploring.

To be advised shortly

• Chujia Cai
• Xiaofang Zhan
• Andrew Bollinger
• Igor Nikolic
• Jaco Quist
• Itay Greenspan
• Femida Handy
• Dunfu Zhang
• Rachel Trajber
• Simona Diliberto
• Sacha Manik

• Dr Liu Fei
• Riie Heikkila
• Xiaoyang Zhang
• Dr Jordi López-Sintas
• Terhi-Anna Wilska
• Nicklas Neuman

• Lidewij Tummers
• Mia Tammelin
• Nicklas Neuman
• Tullia Jack

• Charlotte Dion
• Gregor Kungl
• Jo Lindsay
• Mette Jacobsen
• Senja Laakso
• Zhu Di