In Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept ‘dialogue’, which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to a dialogue, or set of dialogues – with street dog Olli, a community of former lab mice, amphibian neighbors, the North Sea, human children, art, and other beings and entities. Taking multispecies dialogues seriously is a way to do justice to more-than-human agency and to become more worldly in a time dominated by humans. Rethinking the model of the dialogue also opens up new ways of doing philosophy in multispecies world, which is urgently needed to address the ecological, political and philosophical problems of our time.

The event takes place on February 12th, 2025, 7 pm CET via zoom: Please contact Eloe Kingma for the Zoom Link: asca-fgw@uva.nl.

From the 12^th of February onwards, Multispecies Dialogues will also be available online (open access, thanks to the NWO) and in printed form