Forskarseminarium: "The world after: Robobees and plant futures" med Larisa Jasarevic

Seminarium

Datum: måndag 28 april 2025

Tid: 13.00 – 14.30

Plats: B600

Forskarseminarium: "The world after: Robobees and plant futures" med Larisa Jasarevic

Abstrakt:

In sci-tech labs world over, the race is on to develop robotic pollinators. Autonomous vehicles and drones, guided by AI frameworks and fitted with precision pollination features, the artificial species of robotic pollinators are hailed as solutions to the planet’s ecological and climate challenges. The latest addition to the prolific speculations about the world after bees, robobees are attracting massive funds, public interest, and criticism of pollination ecologists. This talk darts back and forth between some biotic and robotic plant-insect-human relations to ponder cosmologies and eschatologies—ideas of the world and “the world after”—at work in divergent responses to the world in trouble.

Bio:

Larisa Jasarevic is an anthropologist. Her latest book and documentary film Beekeeping in the End Times (2024), concern Islamic eco-eschatology, honeybees, and climate change. Lately an independent scholar, Larisa used to teach at the University of Chicago and was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

BIOrdinary 2025 Seminar Series

Senast uppdaterad: 10 mars 2025

Sidansvarig: Socialantropologiska institutionen

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