Oecologies

5 November 2021 | 11 AM PST

In the past and present, resource extraction has dramatically transformed the environment and social relations amongst people in the interest of economic growth, through varied techniques like mining and deforestation.

How have premodern literary texts responded to these extractive practices and the transformations that they inaugurated? Can literary or other arts-visual and plastic, for instance–offer other ways to imagine the natural world and human engagement with it? This panel will present different understandings and approaches cultural and literary (especially as these categories overlap) –on the politics of extraction and its ecological impact.

Panelists:
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, UC Davis
Debrapriya Sarkar, UConn
Phillip Usher, NYU

Should you wish to attend, please email oecologies@gmail.com by November 4th