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Summit Opening and Welcome
9:30am PDT
Chair of the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Program
Message from the Provost Division of CIIS
9:40am PDT
Land Acknowledgement
09:45am PDT
Dr. Preston Vargas
Director of the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis
Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Panel: 10:00am – 12:00pm PDT
Human Entanglements with More-Than-Human Worlds
Panel Summary:
This panel aims to explore diverse perspectives on the intersections between human and more-than-human beings particularly focusing on queer theory, ecology, and indigenous spirituality.
Dr. Patricia Kaishian: “Myceliating the Emotional Space”
Presenter bio: Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is the Curator of Mycology at the New York State Museum, and a professor of biology with Bard Prison Initiative. She is a co-founder of the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists, which seeks to jointly protect Armenian sovereignty and biodiversity. Patricia also studies queer theory and philosophy of science, exploring how mycology and other scientific disciplines are situated in and informed by our sociopolitical landscape. Her work The science underground: mycology as a queer discipline appears in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Her forthcoming book, Forest Euphoria, will be published by Spiegel & Grau.
Dr. Cate Sandilands: "Urticacious Intimacies and Queer Ecologies"
Presenter bio: Catriona (Cate) Sandilands is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto. Her research areas include queer and feminist ecologies, critical plant studies, ecocriticism, public environmental engagement through literature and storytelling, and creative writing practice and pedagogy. Her sole-authored and collaborative publications in these fields include the books The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (1999); This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (2004); Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (2010); and Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times (2019). Her recent writings on plants and queer ecologies include essays in Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn (2022); Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose (2022); Sex Ecologies (2022); Environmental Humanities (2022); and The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities (2021), all of which are part her project Plantasmagoria: Botanical Encounters in the (M)Anthropocene.
Dr. Michelle Marzullo: “Unforeseen Lines of Force: Queer Kinship, Climate Ethics”
Presenter bio: Michelle Marzullo, Ph.D. is a practicing anthropologist specializing in critical sexualities studies. She is Chair and Professor in the Human Sexuality Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), leading only the second fully accredited sexuality doctoral program in the U.S. Her latest works are Critical Sexuality Studies, Lavender Languages, and Everyday Life. Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024) and Critical Sexual Literacy: Forecasting Trends in Sexual Politics, Diversity and Pedagogy (Anthem, 2021). She leverages her position to be a convener of academics and advocates who foster critical sexualities studies, which center issues of power related to sexualities, sex, and gender. Dr. Marzullo has worked on a wide range of research and consultancy engagements across topic such as LGBTQ access to higher education; artificial intelligence and reproductive health; workplace diversity and inclusion; sexuality, marriage, and economics in the U.S.; and LGBTQ youth issues. Check out more at www.ciis.edu/hsx.
Dr. Margaret Robinson: “Kinship with Other Animals in Mi’kmaw Spirituality”
Presenter bio: Dr. Margaret Robinson (she/her) is a two-spirit Mi’kmaw scholar and a citizen of Lennox Island First Nation. She holds Indian status under article 6.2 of the Canadian Indian Act. Margaret regularly publishes on sexual and gender identity, mental health, substance use, food sovereignty, and Indigenous cultural continuity. Her community-driven program of research examines benefits of cultural identity, language, and the arts to promote wellbeing for oppressed people. She works as an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, where she holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reconciliation, Gender, and Identity.
Moderator: Andrew Scanlan, PhD Student in Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion at CIIS
Human Entanglements with More-Than-Human Worlds
Summit Opening and Welcome
9:30am PDT
Chair of the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Program
Message from the Provost Division of CIIS
9:40am PDT
Land Acknowledgement
09:45am PDT
Dr. Preston Vargas
Director of the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis
Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Panel: 10:00am – 12:00pm PDT
Human Entanglements with More-Than-Human Worlds
Panel Summary:
This panel aims to explore diverse perspectives on the intersections between human and more-than-human beings particularly focusing on queer theory, ecology, and indigenous spirituality.
Dr. Patricia Kaishian: “Myceliating the Emotional Space”
Presenter bio: Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is the Curator of Mycology at the New York State Museum, and a professor of biology with Bard Prison Initiative. She is a co-founder of the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists, which seeks to jointly protect Armenian sovereignty and biodiversity. Patricia also studies queer theory and philosophy of science, exploring how mycology and other scientific disciplines are situated in and informed by our sociopolitical landscape. Her work The science underground: mycology as a queer discipline appears in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Her forthcoming book, Forest Euphoria, will be published by Spiegel & Grau.
Dr. Cate Sandilands: "Urticacious Intimacies and Queer Ecologies"
Presenter bio: Catriona (Cate) Sandilands is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto. Her research areas include queer and feminist ecologies, critical plant studies, ecocriticism, public environmental engagement through literature and storytelling, and creative writing practice and pedagogy. Her sole-authored and collaborative publications in these fields include the books The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (1999); This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (2004); Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (2010); and Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times (2019). Her recent writings on plants and queer ecologies include essays in Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn (2022); Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose (2022); Sex Ecologies (2022); Environmental Humanities (2022); and The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities (2021), all of which are part her project Plantasmagoria: Botanical Encounters in the (M)Anthropocene.
Dr. Michelle Marzullo: “Unforeseen Lines of Force: Queer Kinship, Climate Ethics”
Presenter bio: Michelle Marzullo, Ph.D. is a practicing anthropologist specializing in critical sexualities studies. She is Chair and Professor in the Human Sexuality Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), leading only the second fully accredited sexuality doctoral program in the U.S. Her latest works are Critical Sexuality Studies, Lavender Languages, and Everyday Life. Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024) and Critical Sexual Literacy: Forecasting Trends in Sexual Politics, Diversity and Pedagogy (Anthem, 2021). She leverages her position to be a convener of academics and advocates who foster critical sexualities studies, which center issues of power related to sexualities, sex, and gender. Dr. Marzullo has worked on a wide range of research and consultancy engagements across topic such as LGBTQ access to higher education; artificial intelligence and reproductive health; workplace diversity and inclusion; sexuality, marriage, and economics in the U.S.; and LGBTQ youth issues. Check out more at www.ciis.edu/hsx.
Dr. Margaret Robinson: “Kinship with Other Animals in Mi’kmaw Spirituality”
Presenter bio: Dr. Margaret Robinson (she/her) is a two-spirit Mi’kmaw scholar and a citizen of Lennox Island First Nation. She holds Indian status under article 6.2 of the Canadian Indian Act. Margaret regularly publishes on sexual and gender identity, mental health, substance use, food sovereignty, and Indigenous cultural continuity. Her community-driven program of research examines benefits of cultural identity, language, and the arts to promote wellbeing for oppressed people. She works as an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, where she holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reconciliation, Gender, and Identity.
Moderator: Andrew Scanlan, PhD Student in Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion at CIIS
