Parma, Jan. 26, 2026 - The international workshop Sustainability Beyond the Humans: Engaging with Non-Human (or Other-Than-Human) Beings, organized by the University of Parma as part of the EU GREEN Alliance on Wednesday January 28, from 3 p.m., on Teams, explores interdisciplinary reflections on sustainability beyond the exclusively human perspective.
The event brings together scholars from different European universities to explore how humans, animals, environments and technologies coexist, interact and build shared sustainable practices.
The workshop is divided into two sessions.
The first session will host talks by Maria Ilhéu and Mariana Valente from the University of Évora (Learning to notice and love a multispecies world), Carsten Kullmann from the University of Magdeburg (Flocking together: sheep husbandry as a driver for settler colonialism in Oceania), Osman Arrobbio of the University of Parma (What to do with a lost sheep? Ignorance, care, and the surprise of meeting another living being), Joana Abranches Portela of the University of Évora (To be or not too bee? - Invisibeelities of human-bee engagements in Alentejo narratives), Sofia Salema and Pedro Guilherme of the University of Évora (Architecture as a Situated Practice of Sustainability).
In the second session, from 5 p.m., talks by Cristina Brito of NOVA FCSH Lisbon (Is there a mermaid in the tub? Extraction, representation and conservation of sirenians across time and geography),Therese Hume of Atlantic Technological University (Revisiting Bateson: technology, learning and the more than human world), Matteo Cattaneo of the University of Gävle (Between Ingold and Freire: for an ethic of attentiveness in a community of inquiry practice), Simona Bertolini from the University of Parma (Engaging with non-human beings from a sustainable perspective. Philosophical implications), Jorge Croce Rivera of the University of Évora (On feral: contemporary considerations on the wild region in life-histories).
Both sessions will be closed by a discussion.
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Info: simona.bertolini@unipr.it.
