Events

KLI Colloquia are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. We offer three types of talks:

1. Current Research Talks. KLI fellows or visiting researchers present and discuss their most recent research with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.

2. Future Research Talks. Visiting researchers present and discuss future projects and ideas togehter with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.

3. Professional Developmental Talks. Experts about research grants and applications at the Austrian and European levels present career opportunities and strategies to late-PhD and post-doctoral researchers.

  • The presentation language is English.
  • If you are interested in presenting your current or future work at the KLI, please contact the Scientific Director or the Executive Manager.

Event Details

Juno Salazar Parreñas
KLI Colloquia
Co(w)-Evolution: Dairying from the Holocene to the Anthropocene in German Speaking Europe
Juno SALAZAR PARREÑAS (Cornell University, New York)
2024-06-06 15:00 - 2024-06-06 17:00
KLI
Organized by KLI
You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 
When: June 6, 2024 03:00 PM Vienna 
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Topic description/ abstract:
 
Dairying is a deeply embedded form of cultural heritage spanning the geological era of the Holocene in western Europe, especially in the Alps. Meanwhile, agricultural industrialization of dairy and meat are found to have produced so much methane gas and carbon emissions, it is characterized as having a hefty “ecological hoofprint” instead of a “carbon footprint” following Tony Weis. In this contemporary context of climate breakdown, how is the deep co-evolutionary history of European dairy farming narrated and remembered, especially when we consider today’s market decline in dairy consumption within Europe as well as the pressure exercised on dairy farmers to adopt new and expensive technologies to increase yields in the name of sustainability? This talk approaches the long history of human-cow co-evolution in western Europe through an ethnographic and bio-cultural-historical approach.
 
 
Biographical note:
 
Juno Salazar Parreñas is an Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University (USA). She is the author of Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, which received the 2019 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize from the Association of Feminist Anthropology.