Reading Group: TWP&F: Sounding More-than-Human Worlds at ArtLab
Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Conference Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Registration is required.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 3 – 5 pm: Sounding More-than-Human Worlds at ArtLab with Elitza Koeva, Artist and Postdoctoral Fellow, Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative. Please meet at the entrance to the ArtLab at 140 N Harvard St, Boston, MA 02134. If you need a ride over, please arrive at the CSWR at 2:45pm.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 3 – 5 pm: Northern European Plant Magic & Folklore with Christina Oakley Harrington, Historian and CSWR Scholar-in-Residence
Email plants@hds.harvard.edu to be added to the reading group mailing list
NATALIA SCHWIEN is an herbalist, wildlife rescue & rehabilitation apprentice, and Ph.D. candidate in the Study of Religion at Harvard University, where she recently completed a Master of Theological Studies degree with a focus on the intersection of ecology and spiritual practice. She researches relational ontologies, posthuman ethics, and diction on personhood in scientific discourse, specifically neuroscience. Her secondary work is in Celtic Studies on trans-species soul migration in mythology and plants addressed in the vocative in Old Irish poetry.
Her work has been featured in New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, Vice, For The Wild, and more. For more information + publications, visit selkieprojects.com.
Subsequent meetings are: 2/12, 2/26, 3/12, 3/26, 4/9, 4/23
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 3 – 5 pm: Sounding More-than-Human Worlds at ArtLab with Elitza Koeva, Artist and Postdoctoral Fellow, Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative. Please meet at the entrance to the ArtLab at 140 N Harvard St, Boston, MA 02134. If you need a ride over, please arrive at the CSWR at 2:45pm.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 3 – 5 pm: Northern European Plant Magic & Folklore with Christina Oakley Harrington, Historian and CSWR Scholar-in-Residence
Email plants@hds.harvard.edu to be added to the reading group mailing list
NATALIA SCHWIEN is an herbalist, wildlife rescue & rehabilitation apprentice, and Ph.D. candidate in the Study of Religion at Harvard University, where she recently completed a Master of Theological Studies degree with a focus on the intersection of ecology and spiritual practice. She researches relational ontologies, posthuman ethics, and diction on personhood in scientific discourse, specifically neuroscience. Her secondary work is in Celtic Studies on trans-species soul migration in mythology and plants addressed in the vocative in Old Irish poetry.
Her work has been featured in New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, Vice, For The Wild, and more. For more information + publications, visit selkieprojects.com.
Subsequent meetings are: 2/12, 2/26, 3/12, 3/26, 4/9, 4/23

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