The event is a preliminary workshop of Planetary Workshop series and an inter-/cross-disciplinary effort to initiate a conversation among scholars whose research grapples with planetary futures from various different perspectives.

In the first roundtable, Temporalities will serve as the overarching theme, and participants will explore human/nature relationship with time, evaluation of future and nature, and finally mortality.

The unifying theme for the second roundtable is Crisis, encompassing topics from extreme weather events, to global and transnational challenges posed by climate change, as well as technologies like geo-engineering that are intended for -- and may become -- crisis.

The third roundtable will focus on Resources and how their exploitation, appropriation, circulation and distribution shape and reshape power -- both past and future, and how humankind’s relationship with the planet is projected in their (in-)materiality and (in-)scarcity.

 The fourth roundtable is about Social where we will explore various actions and actors that are vested with or organized to have the power to move for and against the planet.

This event is a closed-door session, accessible by invitation only.

Contact: Yirong Sun, ys5086@nyu.edu