Conference - ‘Themes in 21st Century Process Thought: “Ecological” Thinking in Philosophy, Theology, and the Arts’

The conference is organised by Wahida Khandker, the Games and Environment lead at the MGC. This event a session about game hacking for those attending.

Programme Day 1 - Thursday 6th March

10.00-10.30 Coffee & Registration

10.30-10.45 Welcome and Introduction – Wahida Khandker (Manchester Metropolitan University)

10.45-11.30 Stella Sandford (Kingston University), ‘Process Metaphysics and “Promiscuous Realism”: Reflections on John Dupré's Philosophy of Biology’

11.30-12.15 Ruth Chadd (Claremont School of Theology), Title TBC

12.15-1.00 Undine Sellbach (University of Dundee), ‘Infancy of the Organism: Uexküll's picture book biology’

1.00-2.30 Lunch (provided)

2.30-3.30 Rachael Gittins (Manchester Metropolitan University), Workshop: ‘An “Apprenticeship” in Multi-Species Signs: Building Other Worlds with Uexküll and Deleuze’

3.30-4.00 Coffee Break

4.00-4.45 Andrew Davis (Center for Process Studies), ‘Whitehead Among the Philosophical Practitioners: Contributions from Process Philosophy.’ Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Programme Day 2 - Friday 7th March

10.00-10.15 Coffee & Registration

10.15-11.45 Panel: • Paige Colton (University of Manchester), ‘Research with Rats Beyond the Laboratory: Enriching and Embodying Rattus Worlds’ • Adam Frank (University of Dundee), ‘Getting Your Hands Dirty: Philosophising with Botanical Garden Volunteers’ • Brett Wilson (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Rage Against the Machine: End of Days for a 400 Year Old Metaphor We Mistook for Reality’

11.45-12.30 Juan Guillermo Londoño (Charles University), ‘Imagination and Animality: A Whiteheadian Approach to Animal Psychology and Morphology’

12.30-2.00 Lunch (provided)

2.00-3.00 Chloé Germaine (Manchester Metropolitan University) Workshop: ‘Game Hacking for Climate Futures’

3.00-3.45 Philip Tonner (University of Glasgow), ‘Toward a Processual, Sacramental Philosophical Anthropology: A Work in Progress Report’

3.45-4.15 Coffee Break

4.15-5.00 Brianne Donaldson (University of California, Irvine), ‘Creating “the Human” to Come: Crossing The Rubicon of Process Ecologies with the Conceptual Personae of Animals’

This event is free to attend, but registration is required. To register or for other enquiries, please contact: Wahida Khandker (w.khandker@mmu.ac.uk)

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council