Eero Laine Co-Authors Book Exploring Collaborative Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities
Eero Laine
Eero Laine, associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, along with fourteen co-authors from around the world, began writing a book together when the Performance Studies International Conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance" was recently published by Punctum Books as part of the Advanced Methodologies: New Research Ontologies series.
The book rethinks how we can think, work and write together. Authored collectively by 15 scholars and artists, the book explores new methodologies of collaborative scholarship for the arts and humanities within the context of the various ecological, medical, military and epistemic ends facing the world.
The authors of "Mourning the Ends" developed an experimental methodology as the book was researched, written and revised by 15 individuals situated across the globe. The writing emerged in part from a shared sense of mourning through the global pandemic and ongoing ecological catastrophes, yet the questions and arguments that are raised are immediately relevant as the rolling crises of our contemporary moment play out and further develop.