In July 2025, BCB Migration Studies professor
Agata Lisiak was guest faculty at the
Pelion Summer Lab (PSL) for Cultural Theory and Experimental Humanities. Founded by University of Thessaly Professor Penelope Papailias, Lisiak’s longtime
EHCN collaborator,
PSL convenes an interdisciplinary group of graduate students, researchers, academics, artists, and cultural producers for a ten-day period of intensive exchange and exploration regarding the pressing problems and questions of our worlds. This year’s theme, Anthropo-scenes, was an experiment in ecodramaturgy, bringing together speculative ethnography, Black geographies, decolonial thought, landscape architecture, and community-based theater to reimagine forms of agency and relationality in the wake of climate collapse. As anthropologist, novelist and decolonial theorist Amitav Ghosh has argued, the climate crisis is also a crisis of the imagination. Recognizing the urgency of moving beyond dominant narratives of crisis and recovery, this year’s lab experimented with new ways of staging, witnessing, and engaging with climate realities. Participants explored creative forms of non-extractive relationality that respond to the everyday challenges—and anticolonial histories—of living otherwise on a damaged planet.
Post Date: 07-11-2025