Religion, Science and Violence: Imagining past Colonizing Epistemes

If we want to address the violence inherent in modern western thought, then we need to undiscipline our thinking. How might we begin to re-attune to our evolving, embodied contexts on a planet marked by climate change and globalization? What types of planetary futures might we co-imagine and begin to work towards? These questions, to my mind, are at the heart of understanding human conditions in the 21st century, and exploring them will be important for co-constructing worlds that work toward the flourishing of the planetary community. This panel will draw from Indigenous, decolonial, and queer theories to rethink and re-imagine the disciplinary boundaries that separate “religion” and “science.” Furthermore, we will draw from speculative fiction, poetry, popular media and art to suggest ways in which we might re-imagine the world in a non-anthropocentric, non-hetero-euro-patriarchal way.