PhD-course WASTE: Cultural imaginaries and materiality

This 3-day course for PhD-students studies waste from a humanities perspective. It will combine lectures by invited scholars, discussions in the classroom, peer-feedback on writings, and waste excursions. Topics that will be covered in the course include: theorizing waste, the unevenness of toxic materialities, plastics, capitalism and the distribution of waste networks, and the incorporation of new materials into everyday lives and how they impact waste imaginaries and waste trajectories, and also the importance of cultural imaginaries, belief, aesthetics, and affect in the generation and fates of waste.

A call for applications will be distributed soon.