Dr. Zoe Todd | Academic | Writer | Artist | Fish Philosopher
December 1, 2022 By: Zoe Todd In June 2022, officials confirmed that the 15th Committee of All Parties (COP15) for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is meeting to finalize the latest iteration of the Convention this December in Montreal, Canada. It is anticipated that ongoing pressure will be exerted at COP15 to encourage global…
In March, the Center for Humans and Nature published my short essay on relationships to ‘weaponized fossil kin’ in Alberta for their series “What Stories Does the Land Hold?”. You can read the piece here: https://humansandnature.org/home-story/
In late January, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Ozayr Saloojee, and I published a piece for Transmediale’s for refusal series on ‘kerogenic relations’. You can read our piece here: https://202122.transmediale.de/almanac/kerogenic-relations
I was featured alongside really great folks in a special feature on Indigenous science. Many thanks to venerable host Bob MacDonald and amazing producer Amanda Buckiewicz for the opportunity! https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jun-5-shark-extinction-event-caffeine-can-t-keep-you-functional-the-pachyderm-s-proboscis-and-more-1.6052388/how-indigenous-science-could-help-us-with-our-sustainability-and-diversity-crisis-1.6052394
Pleased to announce that our article “From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin Study”, part of a special issue edited by Warwick Anderson and Gabriela Soto Laveaga, has just been published in History and Theory: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hith.12166
A big thanks to Nick Ward with the Carleton Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for writing a feature on our New Frontiers in Research Fund project on Bighorn Country bull trout. Fangliang Xu was the photographer for the piece! You can read an online version of the piece here: https://www1.carleton.ca/fass/story/stories-are-for-thinking-the-art-and-research-of-professor-zoe-todd/ You may also contact…