SACTS Team Publications

Barman, P. (2024) From Gee to Haw (and Everything in Between): Deconstructing the Transspecies Pidgin of Mushing in Northern Saskatchewan, MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, URegina.

Abbott, S. (2023) ‘Killing’ trees: How true environmental protection requires a revolution in how we talk about, and with, our forests. The Conversation, October 29.

Oehler, A. and Drescher, D., (2023) Heritage Beyond Words: Acts of Nonverbal Decolonization. Anthropology Now, 14(3), pp.165-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186104

Oehler, A. (2023) Fluctuating Human-Animal Relations: Soiot Herder-Hunters of South-Central Siberia. In Davydov, V., Ferguson, J., and Ziker, J.P. Eds. The Siberian World. London: Routledge. Pp. 192-204.

Oehler, A. (2022) Crafting Crafty: Dispatches From The Wolf-Human Interface. Asian Studies, The Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), Jun 2022, Volume 1, p.516 – 522. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048557820/ICAS.2022.060

Conferences

10-15 June, 2024: Oehler, A. “Engaging Landscape as Conversant in Interspecies Communication.” Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and Audiovisuality (SENSA Lab). University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

23-24 May, 2024: Oehler, A. and D. Drescher. “Ontological Ideologies and the Marginalization of Nonverbal Communication in the Arctic.” Language ideologies and inequality with a perspective on the Arctic, Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland), Nuuk, Greenland.

15 May, 2024: Oehler, A., A. Stark, P. Barman. (Organized Flash Talks) “With All Our Kin.” CASCA 2024, Kelowna, BC, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

4 April, 2024: Oehler, A., A. Stark, P. Barman. “Discourse analysis with pre-linguistic communicative partners.” Humanities Research Institute (University of Regina) 2024 Research Showcase.

21-23 March, 2023: Alex Oehler and Victoria Peemot organize panel, “Beyond speech: toward a northern sensory ecology of animals, plants, and humans” at Relations and beyond: conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 21-23 March in Rovaniemi, Finland.

21-23 March, 2023: Victoria Peemot presents paper, “Spiraea Söösken: its status, use, and place in land-based human-nonhuman kinship” at at Relations and beyond: conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 21-23 March in Rovaniemi, Finland.

21-23 March, 2023: Alex Oehler presents paper, “Interdisciplinary prospects for the study of nonverbal interspecies communication” at Relations and beyond: conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovaniemi, Finland.

27 June, 2022: Sarah Abbott presents keynote, “Somatic Awareness for Interspecies Communication, Collaboration, and Equitable Relations with the Vegetal World” at Sentient Performativities: thinking alongside the human conference, art.earth, Dartington Trust (Dartington Arts School & Schumacher College) and Bath Spa University, Totnes, England.

24-26 May, 2022: Abbott, S. presents “Intuitive Interspecies Communication with Plants and Animals: Connections, Diversity, Community” at the International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium: Shifting Paradigms in Human-Animal Relations, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.

24-26 May, 2022: Oehler, A. presents “Sentient Intermediaries” at the International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium: Shifting Paradigms in Human-Animal Relations, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Talk available here. Paper available here.

11-14 May, 2022: Oehler, A. presents “Open Plants, Open Plans” at CASCA22 Regina – Annual Conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society. Paper available here.

Exhibitions

11-14 May, 2022: “Open Spaces – Close Encounters / Espaces Ouverts – Liens Étroits.” Curators: Alex Ranger & Alex Oehler; Artists: Belinda Harrow (Unsettled) & Melanie Rose (The Flower People). Gallery: The Fifth Parallel Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada. This exhibit was part of the 2022 Canadian Anthropology Society conference. It juxtaposed settler and Indigenous descended perceptions of our relations to each other, the land, animals, and plants through visual and tactile media, including felt, concrete, painting, and photography.

Public Talks

21-23 July, 2023: Team member Sarah Abbott presents: Gestures toward Plant Vision, Secret Gardens Tour, New Dance Horizons, Regina, Saskatchewan; tree talks

19 July, 2023: Team member Sarah Abbott’s interview, “Tree Talk: University of Regina professor gets to the root of tree communication in upcoming talk” with Stefani Langenegger, Regina Morning Edition, CBC Radio.

24 May, 2023: Team member Pradeep Doley Barman presents: The Pack’s Purpose: An Inquiry into Canine Intimacies of the Canadian North (proposal) at UR Global Connection luncheon.

23 March, 2023: Team member Alesha Stark presents: The Re-emergence of the Huntress: Towards an Understanding of Interspecies Relations and Knowledges in the Northwest Territories (proposal) for undergraduate students in ANTH 100.

9 March, 2023: Team member Pradeep Doley Barman presents: The Pack’s Purpose: How I plan to Design Research around Nonhumans in Hybrid Communities for undergraduate students in ANTH 100.

18 March, 2022: Team member Oehler, A. presents “Multispecies Ethnography Now” to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. Paper available here.

7 February, 2022: Team member Gieser, T. presented his book draft, “Living with wolves in Germany – the affective side of coexistence and conflict,” at the Seminar of the Institute of Ethnology CAS, Prague, Czech Replublic. Oehler, A. was the discussant.