Oecologies

May Œ Writing Workshop!

  • Learning to Die Read More in the Anthropocene the Time We Have

    Mo Pareles, University of British Columbia A lot of people I know and don’t know were irritated by an article by Jonathan Franzen, a famous non-expert, called “What If We Stopped Pretending?: The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.” You can read excellent rebuttals…

  • Topsell’s Hare

    Martha Alexandra, University of California, Davis When people ask me what I write about, the short answer I usually give is “witches, witchy stuff.” Many times this is a sufficiently juicy response to satisfy someone that my work is interesting—witchiness and the occult are, as I’ve learned, “in”—but if they want to know more, the…

  • Oecologies Reading Group Session II

    We are proud to announce the second meeting of the Oecologies reading group, to be held on November 21st at 2:30 pm PST. Our reading for this meeting will be the introduction to Radhika Govindrajan’s Animal Intimacies. We welcome any and all scholars to this meeting, and we particularly welcome the participation of graduate students…

  • “Earth”: Oxford, September 19th and 20th

    “Earth,” the first part of multi-year collaboration “Earth, Sea, Sky,” took place at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities in September. The project’s principal investigators are Dr. Tom White (University of Oxford), Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), Dr. Vin Nardizzi (University of British Columbia), and Dr. Todd Borlik (University of Huddersfield).…

  • The Year In Review, 2018-2019

    It’s a pleasure to reflect on the fifth year for the Oecologies network. Since our first annual review in 2014-2015, the network has extended its geographical remit down the Pacific North American Coast, grown and codified its mission and governance, and continued to add new members and activities to its roster. Following last summer’s restructuring…