Uncanny Ocean focuses on one aspect of the ocean – how little we know of it.

They say we know more about outer space than the bottom of the sea. This day of events takes this unknowability of the ocean as a means with which to think about the aquatic as a material, a medium, exploring its mystery, and its rich and complex history of migration, trade, prospecting, and violence. Thinking about its murky depths, other creatures underwater and how we might start from the ocean to think of spells, of time out of joint, time travel, visionary fiction and other possible worlds.

Speakers: 
Stefan Helmreich
Jota Mombaça
RAQS Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta)
Mao Mallona
Stefano Harney
Rajiv Mohabir

Program
10:00 – 10:10 
Introduction by Ayesha Hameed

10:10 – 11:10 
RAQS Media Collective
Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta

11:20 – 12:30
Jota Mombaça

12:40 – 13:20 
Questions and discussion

14:30 – 15:30 
Mao Mallona, Rajiv Mohabir, Stefano Harney

15:40 – 16:40 Stefan Helmreich

16:50 – 17:30
Questions and discussion

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