The Elements in Relation workshops explore speculative understandings of the complex relational dynamics between humans and the planet. Around the planet, Indigenous cosmologies find air, land, and water inseparable from all other forms of life — and nonlife, including ancestors, deities, and nonliving entities. What potentially links all these systems is a focus on interconnections and interrelations that acknowledge that human conceptions of time are very short from a planetary perspective yet human activities have had a disproportionate impact on the planet.

The workshop is supported by supported by the Anthropocene: Urbanism, the Environment, and Sustainability Research Kitchen, Division of Arts & Humanities, NYUAD and will be convened by

• Katia Arfara, Assistant Professor of Theater, Performance Studies, NYUAD
• Sheetal Majithia, Assistant Professor of Literature, NYUAD
• and Dale Hudson, Professor of Film and New Media, NYUAD