09/07/2025 14:00
- 15:00
HALL: Seminar Room 03
Proponent:
Abraham S.
Chair:
Bär M.
Speaker:
Abraham S.,
Martínez Cano S.,
Wozna Urbanczak A.
This panel explores the intersection of gender and environment. "Gender"- in our panel- would mean going beyond binary schemes unawarded in deep (Naess) and social ecology (Bookchin) and intents to make another step after the wise inputs of ecofeminists (Waren, Plumwood, Shiva) and current ecofeminist theologians.
Karen Barad (2011) offers an interesting perspective on nature, a term that can be applied to organic and non-organic bodies, that performs in a queer way. The examples of the species acting as flower or animal in different frames or -at a sub-molecular level- the light as a wave or particle suggest a new perception of ontology that connects the classical view on nature (physis) referred to bodies composed somehow indistinguishably of matter and soul with the recent discoveries on identity and relationality in a physic, natural world.
Christian Theology of 4th century decides to apply the term "nature" (physis/ousia) to explain some points of the mystery of relations in the Trinity and with humanity. Jesus is "from the same substance/nature/ousia", one person of two natures. This person gets embodied and this event changes the way many people perceive God and live their experience as persons and part of the nature.
How can we start thinking on gendered diverse bodies from theological perspective the way we do not fall directly in anthropocentrism (as we share the matter with the rest of the nature) and morals? Which approaches can make the matter worth being cherished? And why? Beth Felker Jones (2007) and Taylor Petrey (2015) present some inspiring inputs on this topic from the resurrection perspective. This panel intents to explore such innovating paths in order to see how they can be applied to gender studies and environmental issues.