Keynote Speakers

Eva Haifa Giraud is a senior lecturer in Digital Media & Society at the University of Sheffield, UK, whose research focuses on the (sometimes fraught) relationship between theoretical work focused on relationality and entanglement, and activist practice. Her publications include What Comes After Entanglement? Activism, anthropocentrism and an ethics of exclusion (Duke University Press), Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory (Bloomsbury Academic) and articles in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, New Media & Society and Social Studies of Science.  She is a co-editor of the journal Cultural Politics and associated book series. 

Kuura Irni works as Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies MA programme at University of Helsinki, Finland. They have published among others, on feminist science studies and ontological moves within feminist theory, feminist debates about intersectionality, gendered and racialised politics of hormone treatments, transfeminism, affective transdisciplinary feminist encounters, feminist reading strategies, debates about veganism, cat food politics, and multispecies intimacies from a queerfeminist perspective. They led the project “Climate Sustainability in the Kitchen: Everyday Food Cultures in Transition” (2018-2022), which included both research and planning of climate sustainable plant-based lunch recipes for food services. This project also produced an open-access recipe bank (ilmastoruoka.fi). At present Kuura co-edits a trans studies textbook for the Finnish-speaking audience, including writing an article about “trans ecology of care”, which connects ecofeminist and trans ecological thought. They also co-work on an article about police violence and the criminalisation of environmental activists concerning Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in Finland. As a more long-term project they analyse the genealogy of feminist debates on animal politics from a trans, queer and decolonial perspective. Their most recent publications include developing trans sensitive and intersectional ecofeminism, analysing ‘the political’ in Donna Haraway’s thought, and the co-edited open-access anthology Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies: Critical Perspectives on Food and Eating.