Counter-Geographies of Extinction

While abstract numbers and lists with latin species names dominate science communication around extinction, what it means for species and their place-specific ways of life to go extinct often remains untold. On July 4th students from our MA Programme ”Human Geography: Globalization, Media, Culture” presented their human geographic takes on the theme of climate-change related extinction by telling stories that deal with specific ways of life and death in the Anthropocene and related feelings of guilt, loss, and grief. With their performances that draw on creative approaches such as storytelling, performance lectures and counter-mapping, they invited the audience to experience “Counter-Geographies of Extinction” that offer alternative perspectives on human-nature relations in our contemporary world. Performances took place in the Senate Room on the 7^th Floor of the Nat-Fak Building from 3-8pm followed by a jam session around sounds of extinction.