Embodied Signs: Meaning, Materiality, and Multispecies Worlding in Asia
Call for Panelists for the Environmental Humanities for the Conference: “Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds.” Germany, 8–10 July 2026. Organized by the Rachel Carson Center.
Proposed panel description: Embodied Signs: Meaning, Materiality, and Multispecies Worlding in Asia
In response to the humans–more-than-humans dualism as entrenched in the politics of the modern (Latour 1993), this panel proposes to explore semiotic entanglements in multispecies relations in the Asian context. Home to some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems and long-standing traditions of human–environmental co-existence, Asia offers a fertile ...