Inaugural ΠReading Workshop!
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Oecologies CFP: “Climates of Consciousness” (IMC Leeds 2021)
Call for Papers for Session Proposalsat the International Medieval Congress (IMC 2021)Sponsored by the Oecologies Research Cluster05–08 July 2021University of Leeds These sessions seek to explore how space and form — ecologies of consciousness — inform, challenge, and perpetuate reading, writing, consideration, and understanding in the medieval and early modern eras. Focusing on the “climates”…
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The Year in Review, 2019-2020
Dear friends of Oecologies: As my last task as Outgoing Director, I want to report on the group’s happenings and to get you excited about what we’re planning for the upcoming academic year. The year-in-review is, in my experience, never an easy genre in which to write. And it is one I rarely enjoy reading.…
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Oecologies Reading Group: Sea
2 October 2020 | 10:00 AM PST Oecologies is thrilled to announce the inaugural meeting of our newest reading group, “Sea.” For our debut, we will be reading at the intersection of oceanic geohistory and the more recent, social history of legislating the sea. Readings: Helen M. Rozwadowski, “A Long Sea Story,” from Vast Expanses:…
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Why Is It so Hard to Write When the World Is Ending? (A Blog Post about Paralysis)
David K. Coley, Simon Fraser University Back in early March, while the world was watching a “regional viral threat” grow into a global pandemic, a few people started nudging me to “write a quick something about COVID-19 and the plague.” These nudges made some sense. My book Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England…
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David Coley Wins 2020 Labarge Prize
We at Oe are thrilled to announce that our very own David Coley has won the 2020 Labarge Prize for his (very timely) book, Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England! David’s book explores the understated but decisive influence of the Black Death on fourteenth-century literature, and especially the works of the Pearl Poet. Awarded…
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