Readings of Gender and Biodiversity across the Disciplines. A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Texts and Contexts

The aim of the workshop is to assess whether the cultural variations of the concepts of ‘gender’ and ‘biodiversity’, as evidenced by the comparative study of francophone and anglophone sources, are instrumental in deepening our understanding of what is at stake in the current debates in and out of academia.

Hopefully, this training in “bilingual” thinking will bring domestic and international students to “feel together” –con-sentire – the need for an impertinent way of approaching the burning issues of today in a Post-#MeToo, ‘Anthropocenic’ context.

A hybrid event with 5 sessions of close reading and discussion (= 8hrs):

1. “Consent as a Multifaceted Concept” - 1hr30
2. “Biodiversity across the Disciplines: The Theoretical Spectrum” -1hr30
3. “Greening the Blue from a Legal Perspective: Reimagining Ocean Governance in the Face of Biodiversity Loss”- 2hrs - Guest speaker: Leslie-Anne Duvic, Centre for Climate Law & Governance King’s College London, UK
4. “Ecopoet(h)ics: Exploring the Gendered Imaginary of Biodiversity” -1hr30. Guest speaker: Masoumeh Ahmadi, ATU, Iran/U of Waterloo, Canada
5. “The Forging of Innovative Methods of Research Inspired by the linkages between Biodiversity and Gender” - 1hr30