UCC Women's Studies webinar co-organized with the Eco- and Bioart Lab. in association with the ISS21 Genders, Sexualities and Families Research Cluster.

Dr Salomé Lopes Coelho (NOVA University Lisbon) will be presenting a talk on "Inhuman Intimacies: Experimental Cinema and the Queer Performativity of Stones" that examines contemporary experimental films enacting inhuman intimacy within the broader context of a “geological turn” in Latin American cinema. Dr Marietta Radomska (Linköping University & the Eco- and Bioart Lab) will provide a response & Dr Evelien Geerts (UCC) will moderate the conversation.

Dr Salomé Lopes Coelho is a scholar of film and art studies, focusing on cinema and environmental aesthetics. She holds a PhD in Artistic Studies and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ICNOVA and a Guest Assistant Professor in the Communication Department at NOVA University Lisbon. Her research addresses vegetal and inorganic rhythms in contemporary Latin American experimental cinema by women filmmakers. Recent publications include "What Would Rocks Say if Cinema Asked the Right Questions?" (ASAP/J, 2024) and "The Rhythms of More-than-Human Matter in Azucena Losana’s Eco-Developed Film Series Metarretratos" (Iluminace—The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics, 2023).

Dr Marietta Radomska (Docent), is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Linköping University; director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab; co-founder of Queer Death Studies Network; co-editor of the book series ‘Focus on More-than-human Humanities’ (Routledge); and co-editor of books State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing (2023) and Routledge Handbook of Queer Death Studies (forthcoming 2025). She works at the intersection of environmental humanities, continental philosophy, queer death studies, visual culture, contemporary art, and artistic research; and has published in Australian Feminist Studies; Somatechnics; Environment and Planning E, and Artnodes, among others.

Dr Evelien Geerts is a Lecturer in Gender, Women’s Studies and Philosophy and the Women's Studies MA & PhD Program Director at University College Cork (Ireland), a Posthumanism Research Institute Associate (Brock University, Canada), and an Affiliated Researcher at the Posthumanities Hub and the Eco- and Bioart Lab (both at Linköping University, Sweden). Their work focuses on the somatechnics of violence, far-right and alt-right memes, critical posthumanist, new materialist, and Deleuzoguattarian approaches, and theorizing in & with (post-)Anthropocenic crisis times. See Philosophy Today and CounterText for recent article publications and Somatechnics and Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies for special issues on the (im)materiality of violence and dis/abling gender.