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Yasmina El Chami (Sheffield) and Sophia Roosth (NYU)
Response by Spyros Papapetros (Princeton)
How do places become sites of natural abundance? Knowledge-production has played an outsized role in shaping the nature it purports to study. In these talks, geological, architectonic, and landscape formations are shaped to legitimize paradigms of evolution (both natural and otherwise). Yasmina El Chami surveys the architecture of the American rural campus abroad, which helped locate the mountains of the Middle East in religious and agricultural narratives. Sophia Roosth reports on the geo-biologists who, by repeatedly visiting the “sleeping giant” mountain along Lake Superior in search of microfossils, have tapped into Anishinaabe narratives of silver and copper, as well as Anti-Darwinian glacial theory.
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