Reparative Geologies (epistemic and environmental)

Join us for a talk by visiting Professor Kathryn Yusoff, with introduction and Q&A by Therese Keogh.

This talk will explore practicing reparative epistemologies of geology in the context of public exhibitions and colonial photography. Thinking across colonial archives and earth histories in a speculative non-fiction mode, Professor Kathryn Yusoff will discuss work from the co-curation of "GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair" (British Pavilion Venice 2025) and Planetary Portals exhibition "I am in your dreams but you are not in mine" at the Photographers Gallery, London (2025). The exhibitions will be a prompt to think about the where of restitution geographies and the how of making new geologic theories from practice. 

Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London, where her research interrogates the geologies of race, extraction and critical environmental humanities and historical geographies of colonial power. She is author of Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race (Duke University Press, 2024), A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and co-author of Planetary Portals (Goldsmiths Press, 2026). She was one of the curators of the British Pavillion, GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, which received a special mention.

Therese Keogh is an artist and writer living on Awabakal Country. Therese works collaboratively through writing and research projects and is invested in collective imaginaries as a process of creating more just relations with lands, matter, and people. Therese’s collaborative work includes facilitating ‘Magnetic Topographies’ with Clare Britton and Kenzee Patterson—looking to collective pedagogies of place—and ‘PICA ERASED’ with Dennis Grauel—a research project investigating contemporary politics of colonial type design. Therese holds a BFA from Monash University, an MFA from Sydney College of the Arts, an MA Geography from Queen Mary University of London, and a PhD at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.