MGC environment and gaming lead, Dr Wahida Khandker, is the Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded Process Ecologies Network, which explores different conceptual approaches to nature across the arts, science, and philosophy. Games and Game Studies are areas of interest within the network, especially the ways in which games function to simulate ecological processes and are themselves relational and entangled processes.
The purpose of this network is to
Facilitate international collaborations between researchers in process philosophy broadly conceived, with a special focus on UK-US collaborations
Promote the heritage of Whitehead studies in the UK, and to lay the groundwork for innovative research in process thinking through cross-disciplinary activities, with attention to postgraduate researchers and early career scholars
Facilitate the ‘mainstream’ integration of critical animal studies and environmentalist approaches into contemporary continental and process philosophy
In the run-up to the conference, we are running a series of five research webinars (hosted via MS Teams) featuring scholars based in the USA and the UK. The aim of the webinars is to share current research by scholars from different traditions of Continental Philosophy covering topics including the ontologies and epistemologies of process, and their relation to contemporary thought in the arts, sciences, and the environmental humanities.
UPCOMING WEBINAR
Wednesday 16th October, 6pm (UK BST) - Webinar 2 - Matt Segall and Henry Somers-Hall
Matthew David Segall, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Department at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher who applies process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences, as well as to the study of consciousness. His most recent book is titled Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (Revelore, 2023).
Henry Somers-Hall is a Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on the intersection between Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy and the French philosophical tradition, and he is particularly interested in questions concerning the structure of thought and its relation to time. Aside from the work of Gilles Deleuze, he has a strong interest in the French phenomenological movement, in particular, Merleau-Ponty’s own later philosophy of difference and the work of Sartre. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation (2012), Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (2013), and Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy (2022).
