Tiffany Jo Werth, University of California Davis, English On October 2, 2020, the Oecologies Reading Group gathered virtually via Zoom to discuss readings related to this year’s theme of “On the Sea and Coastal Ecologies.” It was also the inaugural “Sea” event for the Oe-adjacent Earth, Sea, Sky network, who are joined this year by…
23 October 2020 | 1:00 PM PST Engaging a curious academic year amid an uncertain and unsettling calendrical one, Oecologies presents “IN THE WAKE: Response and Recovery in the Premodern World.” Our panelists explore the links among cataclysm and social change, premodernity and our present moment. Panelists: Urvashi Chakravarty, TorontoGabriel Rocha, BrownRebecca Totaro, Florida Gulf…
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”…
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.…
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:…