

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Decentralized Biological Warfare: Plants as Non-State Actors in Contemporary Media
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dear All,

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join the first student lecture in the Weird Vegetation series! You will find all the exciting details below...

Decentralized Biological Warfare: Plants as Non-State Actors in Contemporary Media

Date and time: March 25 (WEDNESDAY), 5PM
Place: ASC (Dobra 55), room 2.118
OZN: 3

ABSTRACT

The talk explores the growing representation of plants and ecological systems as decentralized agents of violence in contemporary media. Focusing primarily on The Last of Us as well as Annihilation we examine how vegetation and fungal networks are framed not merely as background threats, but as autonomous actors capable of territorial control and infrastructural disruption.

Unlike traditional depictions of terrorism, these ecological forces operate without ideology, leadership, or negotiation. They challenge modern security paradigms by destabilizing the distinction between state and non-state actors and by introducing biological systems as new forms of decentralized warfare. Those narratives reflect an evident shift in how contemporary societies imagine threat, sovereignty, and the limits of human control.

BIOS

Martyna Szczygieł holds a BA in Security Studies and is currently pursuing an MA in Internal Security at the University of Warsaw, where she is also a second-year BA student in American Studies. She studied Hybrid Warfare and Counterterrorism at Masaryk University in Brno. Her research focuses on international military relations, emerging weapons technologies, and U.S. security culture, including the rise of private military companies and their influence on the erosion of traditional military ethos as well as the representation of violence in shaping contemporary understandings of legitimacy. She is a member of WIIS Poland.

Kieran Klich holds a BA in Security Studies, and is currently pursuing dual MAs in Internal Security and Geography at the University of Warsaw. His research interests include ecological security, economic security, geohazards, and glacial geomorphology, with a particular focus on the links between natural hazards and state security. He is especially interested in how environmental processes and climate-related threats affect state resilience and contemporary security systems.

The lecture is part of a "Weird TV" series. Check out our socials or the ASC website for more information: https://www.asc.uw.edu.pl/.../weird-fictions-research-group/
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Warsaw
- **state**: MZ
- **country**: Poland
- **location**: American Studies Center - OSA UW
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- **full address**: American Studies Center - OSA UW, ul. Dobra 55,Warsaw, Poland

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- **organizer**: Weird Fictions Research Group (https://allevents.in/org/weird-fictions-research-group/23346103)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** American Studies Center - OSA UW, ul. Dobra 55,Warsaw, Poland
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Weird Fictions Research Group
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, theatre, contests
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