Public Reading

Tectonic Plates: Vorspeise

In this public reading, a multidisciplinary group of scholars will present short talks emerging from Tectonic Plates: Vorspeise, a workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in the context of the ongoing Tectonic Plates project. For five days, scholars from food studies, environmental history, history of science, science and technology studies, and anthropology have been collectively thinking, writing, listening, translating, fermenting, foraging, grinding, cooking and eating their way to an understanding of food, time and the Earth. This event unfolds as a curated sequence of readings in which each participant will share ideas that emerged during the course of the workshop. Their contributions will take multiple forms: essays, fragments, histories, archaeologies, vignettes, memoirs, speculative inquiries, and recipes. The event is a collective experiment in form and thought. Rather than offering a single answer, it stages a conversation between environmental history, sensory experience, embodied knowledge, personal history, and deep time. 

Workshop Participants:
Lydia Barnett 
Etienne Benson
María Elena García
Hanna Garth
Cristina Grasseni
Stefan Pohl Valero
Alexis Rider
Lukas Rieppel
Christy Spackman
Lachlan Summers
Rebecca Woods