Jana Winderen

Talk for the session 4: Listening to disappearing Glaciers, led by Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano as part of Water Ecologies~Melting, by Institute for Post Natural Studies

4 online sessions via Zoom
Wednesdays, from April 15th to May 6th, 2026
6:00 – 8:00 PM (CEST)

Find more information about the sessions here.

Form the Website of the project: "When we think of water, ice and vapor are often relegated to a secondary plane after the ocean, rivers, and lakes. As Earth continues to warm, glaciers and polar caps are rapidly disappearing while vapor levels in the atmosphere increase. Amidst this ecosocial crisis, there is also increasing geopolitical tension in Antarctica and the circumpolar arctic, with the United States planned takeover of Greenland as the most evident case.

Water Ecologies ~ Melting is a four-session seminar that dives into the political, ecological and aesthetic implications of a melting planet. How does the loss of glaciers and ice caps resonate with the expansion of extractive technologies, the expansion of AI infrastructure, and the changing sovereignty in a world marked by renewed imperialism?
Throughout the four sessions we will explore the emerging science from the deepest layers of frozen ecosystems, the ecologies of melting glaciers and ice caps, the geopolitical reconfigurations of the arctic and antarctic regions, and artistic invitations to defend, mourn, and listen to these disappearing ice worlds. This seminar explores melting as a political condition, an atmospheric reconfiguration, and as a possibility to sense how human and more-than-human communities are capable of reaffirming life in these conditions."