A brief conversation with Céline Charveriat and Jol Thoms during Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Céline Charveriat is a renowned research activist and experienced civil society leader. Céline started her career as a researcher at the Peterson Institute and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C., focusing on poverty, social protection, and natural disasters. Céline then worked for 10 years at Oxfam International, first as a researcher on poverty and international commodity markets, then as an advocate on trade and climate change issues. As campaigns director, she conducted Oxfam’s campaigns on inequality, climate change, gender and humanitarian crises and conflict. She was the Executive Director of the Institute of European Environmental Policy (IEEP) from 2016 to 2022, during which time she created the first pan European network of sustainability think tanks Think Sustainable Europe (TSE) and the multistakeholder platform Think2030. During that time, she also served as the Chair of the Board of the Climate Action Network Europe. Celine is currently one of the Vice Chairs of the European Commission’s high-level expert group ESIR (Economic and Social Impacts of Innovation and Research). She belongs to the council of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and is on the board of Climate Catalyst. She also works as a coach and mentor for younger female civil society leaders and is one of the founding members of
civil society collectives, such as End Ecocide Belgium and Mères au front Belgique.

> Jol Thoms (he/him) is an artist, sound designer, and researcher based in London, UK where he is a lecturer on the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths University and a faculty member of Critical Ecologies. His works cross and reconfigure boundaries between the non/human, the ineffable, cosmological, and the scientific using strategies from quantum field theory, environmental humanities, and feminist anti-colonial science studies. He is the founder of the Radio Amnion sound art project commissioning and transmitting artists’ compositions of care deep in/to and for the Pacific Ocean on each full moon. Thoms’ critical transdisciplinary practice advocates for an expanded understanding and ethical engagement with diverse knowledge practices by attending to radical pluralities of sites, phenomena, and experiences beyond the measurable and quantifiable. He has participated in international film festivals and exhibitions, and publishes in peer-reviewed journals across that humanities and sciences.

Official website - http://www.jolthoms.com
Radio Amnion - http://www.radioamnion.net

Curated by Francesca Rotta
Picture by Vidas Daudaravicius