Despite the tendency to objectify and quantify ecological and climatic disruptions, these do not happen in an abstract and external realm with respect to human bodies. As embodied beings, posthumanist and ecological feminists argue, we are materially entangled with various life forms for survival. Those relations are currently under threat from extreme weather events, pollution, loss in biodiversity, ocean acidification, and rising sea levels. How to reorient these vulnerable relations ethically, politically, and legally? How can we foster practices of solidarity and resistance?  

In their new book How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton propose “weathering” as both an ecological feminist framework and a set of practical tools for responding to environmental catastrophe. In SPUI25, Neimanis will lay out their ideas, and is joined in conversation by Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, and Jetske Brouwer. They, too, will share conceptual tools for posthuman and feminist ethics, politics, and law. Following the public defence of her dissertation “Rethinking Human and Nonhuman Rights in the Anthropocene,” Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp will moderate the discussion.