BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3047-38ee92fbae0249bb2301ab792b87c6fb@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260416T172528Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T180000 SUMMARY:HI Faculty Invites: “A Spaniard in America and Some Varieties of Natural ism” with Ramón del Castillo DESCRIPTION:\nRamó\;n del Castillo\, Professor at UNED (Universida d Nacional de Educació\;n a Distancia\, Spain)\n\nThis event will be focused on \;Jardí\;n de los delirios \;(2019) which ti tle evokes El Bosco&rsquo\;s \;Garden of Delights\, \;substituti ng \;delirium \;for \;delight\, and whose subtitle \; (l as ilusiones del naturalism) also deliberately plays with the ambiguity of the Spanish word &ldquo\;ilusió\;n&rdquo\; which means both &qu ot\;illusion"\; and "\;delusion."\; The objective of my book was to dismantle some preconceptions about naturalistic landscape archi tecture that has become fashionable in recent years\, but I also analyze d ideas as \;rewilding \;and \;re-naturalization \;y and its connections with different conceptions of ecology. I will also expl ain why I adhered to the ideas of some geographers and philosophers who polemically claimed that &ldquo\;Nature does not exist&rdquo\; such as S lavoj Žižek or Erik Swyngedouw\, who argues: &ldquo\;There is no such th ing as a singular Nature around which an environmentally and socially ju st politics can be constructed and performed. Rather\, there are a multi tude of natures and a multitude of existing\, possible or practical soci o-natural relations&rdquo\; [&hellip\;] \; &ldquo\;The focus on a si ngular Nature that requires &lsquo\;sustaining&rsquo\; or\, at least\, & lsquo\;managing&rsquo\;\, is sustained by a particular &lsquo\;quilting& rsquo\; of Nature that forecloses asking political questions about immed iately and really possible alternative socio-natural arrangements.&rdquo \;\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi-faculty-invit es_101023/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Ramón del Castillo, Professor at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educació ;n a Distancia, Spain)

This event will be focused on J ardín de los delirios (2019) which title evokes El Bosco ’s Garden of Delights, substituting delir ium for delight, and whose subtitle  (las i lusiones del naturalism) also deliberately plays with the ambiguity of the Spanish word “ilusión” which means both " illusion" and "delusion." The objective of my book was to dismantle some preconceptions about naturalistic landscape architecture that has become fashionable in recent years, but I also analyzed ideas as rewilding and re-naturalization y a nd its connections with different conceptions of ecology. I will also ex plain why I adhered to the ideas of some geographers and philosophers wh o polemically claimed that “Nature does not exist” such as S lavoj Žižek or Erik Swyngedouw, who argues: “There is no such thin g as a singular Nature around which an environmentally and socially just politics can be constructed and performed. Rather, there are a multitud e of natures and a multitude of existing, possible or practical socio-na tural relations” […]  “The focus on a singular N ature that requires ‘sustaining’ or, at least, ‘managi ng’, is sustained by a particular ‘quilting’ of Nature that forecloses asking political questions about immediately and really possible alternative socio-natural arrangements.”

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi-faculty-invites_101023/

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