Northern Institute
C-Urge: A Global Anthropology of Climate Urgency
| Presenter | Associate Professor Katrien Pype | |
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Northern Institute
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Room 7.21, Level 7, CDU Danala Education and Community Precinct, 54 Cavenaugh Street, Darwin. |
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| Open to | Public | |
About the seminar:
This visiting academic seminar introduces C‑Urge: A Global Anthropology of Climate Urgency, a large-scale European research project that investigates how “urgency” is produced, experienced, contested, and acted upon in the context of climate change across diverse social worlds. Central to the project is an experimental methodological approach we call eco‑ethnography, which combines long-term anthropological fieldwork with attention to ecological relations, temporal pressures, and moral and political demands for rapid action. As C‑Urge functions as its own complex communicative and organisational ecology, in this seminar I will also reflect on the practical and affective labour of running and inhabiting a large international research consortium.
About the Presenter:
Katrien Pype is an Associate Professor of social and cultural anthropology at KU Leuven. She has been carrying out ethnographic research in Kinshasa since 2003, and has published on its media worlds, popular culture, and tech creativity. Her monograph The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa was published in 2012 with Berghahn Books. She co-edited the OA books The Post-Global City. Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa (2026, with Omolade Adunbi and Michael MJ Fischer, University of Michigan Press) andCryptopolitics. Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media (2023, with V. Bernal and D. Rodima-Taylor, Berghahn Books). She is currently a visiting fellow at the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University.
Registration for the event:
In-person: RSVP here
Please RSVP here to attend in person—limited seating.
Online registration: Register here
Once you register, you will receive an individual link from Microsoft Teams
Getting there:
Room 7.21, Level 7,
CDU Danala Education and Community Precinct,
54 Cavenaugh Street,
Darwin.
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