Oecologies

Please join Oecologies and the ETLM Working Group for a Fall reading group

Friday, October 25 | Zoom from 10:00-11:00 PDT

The recent turn to the energy humanities is only beginning to galvanize scholarship on the material and symbolic impact of energy regimes in the long history of modernity. But research in the energy humanities remains focused somewhat myopically on the past seventy-five years and often appeals to reductive notions of an Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century as the terminus a quo for any investigation into the topic. This reading group joins ongoing conversations in early modern studies that look to the past and a deep history of energy transitions (and additions).

Readings will include primary selections on the myth of Prometheus from Bacon and Boccaccio as well as the seminal introduction by Imre Szeman and Dominic Bover to their Energy Humanities anthology.

For readings and to RSVP, please email Kirsten at kschuhmacher@ucdavis.edu

This reading group is being launched in conjunction with Oecologies and the upcoming January 10th UCLA Clark Library conference. https://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/energy-transitions/