This workshop will examine the connections between Christian-secular colonial empires and the Anthropocene. Bringing together perspectives from political theology and environmental humanities, participants will explore the religious and political dimensions of climate change, its history, and our theorizations of it. How do the imperial-colonial and theologico-political dimensions of extraction and extractivism challenge extant narratives of the Anthropocene? Is extractive modernity a form of (dis)-enchantment? To what extent do we need the categories of secularization and disenchantment to understand fossil-capitalism and empire?
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM: Coffee
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Jennifer Wenzel and Mohamed Amer Meziane
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Session #1: Keynote and Opening Discussion
- Presenter: Mohamed Amer Meziane
- Discussant: Matthew Engelke
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Break
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Session #2
- Presenter: Raffaella Taylor-Seymour
- Discussant: Jennifer Wenzel
12:15 - 1:15 PM: Lunch (Heyman Center Lounge, 2nd floor)
1:30 PM– 2:30 PM: Session # 3
- Presenter: Thangam Ravindranathan
- Discussant: Zeynep Celik Alexander
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM: Break
2:45 – 3:45 Session #4
- Presenter: Leah Aronofsky
- Discussant: Janet Jakobsen
4:00-4:30 Concluding group discussion
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM: Closing remarks
- Mohamed Amer Meziane and Timothy Mitchell
