Peace and Planet: Thinking nonviolence with transcultural art practices, decolonial feminisms and environmental humanities

The project probes the role of art, aesthetics and creative methodologies as they intersect with pacifism and nonviolence as forms of resistance within culture.

This Novo Nordisk Foundation-funded project is headed by Visiting Professor in Art and Art History Marsha Meskimmon, Professor Emerita of Transnational Art and Feminisms at Loughborough University (UK), and co-hosted by Professor Anne Ring Petersen (Modern Culture) and Associate Professor Kerry Greaves (Art History and Visual Culture). Engaging with the arts, art’s histories and aesthetics, “Peace and Planet” proposes a more-than-human counter logic against the structural and cultural violence of anthropocentric thinking, refashioning concepts of social and ecological justice and revaluing the creative plurality of knowledge practices of the academy. The project fosters the development of critical methodologies embodied by new materialist feminism and more permeable intellectual boundaries, with the aim of pushing the limits of scholarly and artistic imagination toward building sustainable, and planetary, communities of practice.

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