Title: Care, place, and the politics of attention

Abstract: What does it feel like to love a place—and to be loved by a place? What does caring for a place look like in the day-to-day? Dr Roxani Krystalli’s current research, with Dr Philipp Schulz at the University of Bremen, investigates what is political about relations and practices of love and care. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in partnership with the German Research Foundation, the project sheds light on the politics of love and care in the wake of loss, including the violence of war, habitat loss, climate change, and other sources of collective grief. In this seminar, Dr Krystalli will share preliminary stories from the first months of this ongoing research.