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Participation in the mini-festival of criticism "Nomadic Subjects"

In the central part of the picture you can see the participants of the discussion, from left - Dace Bula, Ieva Astahovska, Anne Sauka, Anita Zariņa. The upper right part of the image shows the presentation screen with the captions "Criticism Mini-Festival. Nomadic Subjects. Cantastrophe". In the foreground of the picture you can see some of the audience.
In the central part of the picture you can see the participants of the discussion, from left - Dace Bula, Ieva Astahovska, Anne Sauka, Anita Zariņa. The upper right part of the image shows the presentation screen with the captions "Criticism Mini-Festival. Nomadic Subjects. Cantastrophe". In the foreground of the picture you can see some of the audience.
Anita Zariņa, the presenter, is pictured in the foreground. In the background is a presentation screen with the captions "Research on Human-Nature Interactions. Environmental geography, environmental history. People and wildlife, naturalness of nature".
The picture shows the panellists (from left) Anne Sauka and Anita Zariņa. On the left is a table with a microphone on it. In the background, part of the presentation screen with the caption "Nomadic Subjects".

The Kantastofa mini-festival talk on 30 April on interdisciplinarity, dialogues between the humanities and natural sciences was also attended by the project Water Cultures researchers - philosopher Anne Sauka and environmental geographer Anita Zariņa. They raised questions about post-humanism, multi-species coexistence, the role of technology and landscape as a relational space.

Anita Zariņa also gave a critical talk on "Human-wilderness relations: posthumanist framework studies in environmental geography", which examined animal modalities - domesticated, classified and affective - in the sense of Deleuze and Guattari. In her talk, she focused in particular on the case of the reintroduction of the sumbrer in Pape Nature Park, where the escape of the sumbrer becomes an affective event in the landscape - an event that makes us re-evaluate our ideas about nature, wildlife and the role of humans in this relationship.

Images captured by Inga Bitere.

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