The 2026 edition of the BioCriticism webinar proposes interdisciplinary approaches to “Health Across Scales”. Each 90-120 minute session consists of two or three talks followed by discussion. We continue to meet on zoom at 2 pm Central European Time. Abstracts, links, biographies and information about the webinar are available here. All are welcome.
BioCriticism – 2026 – Health across Scales
- 6th of February 2026, 2 pm CET: Imagining Ecosystem Health
Dr Gregory Crocetti (Microbial Ecology, Scale Free Network) and Dr Aviva Reed (Visual Ecology, Scale Free Network), “Small Friends Books: Symbiotic Narratives for Understanding More-Than-Human Worlds”
Prof. Eliane Beaufils (Theatre Studies, Université de Paris 8), “The Democracy of Organisms”
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82551497855?pwd=jfwXfeA0yav44oaeHxb2wKiRtaF1f7.1
- 13th of March 2026, 2 pm CET: Poetics and Ethics of Health on a Warming Planet
Dr. Jim Scown (European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter): “Healthy Soil Communities: ‘The politics and poetics of soil health’ from the 1930s to the present”
Prof. Heather Houser (English Literature, University of Antwerp): “The Numbers Game of Reproduction and Climat”
Prof. Adeline Johns-Putra (English Literature, Queen’s University): “Borrowed World, Borrowed Time: Posterity-as-Parenthood Reconsidered”
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83696571693?pwd=AGeP1A6nUIOyJZlownGGfRcddKeuZ3.1
- 17th of April 2026, 2 pm CEST: Imagining the Holobiont
Prof. Kristien Hens (Ethics, University of Antwerp): “Which Microbiomes Matter? Rethinking the Gut-Centric View of Life”
Dr. Joana Formosinho (Science and Technology Studies, University of Edinburgh): “How—and where—to imagine the biosocial holobiont”
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81184310957?pwd=aBKnOBVvPfRLbaG8DHcLbXUGOY1XIz.1
BioCriticism is organised by Liliane Campos with the support of PRISMES EA4398 and the Institut Universitaire de France. For information and links, please contact liliane.campos@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr or check the BioCriticism website.
