Oecologies

May Œ Writing Workshop!

  • UPDATE: Energy Transitions in Long Modernity Symposium

    UPDATE: Energy Transitions in Long Modernity Symposium

    Day 1: Friday, April 25, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm PDTDay 2: Friday, May 16, 2025 | 9:00am-11:10am PDT UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library2320 Cimarron StreetLos Angeles, CA 90018 Organized by:Robert N. Watson (UCLA)Tiffany Jo Werth (UC Davis)Todd Borlik (Purdue University) Co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UC Davis Medieval…

  • The Sensorial Lives of the Nonhuman in Medieval and Early Modern English Literatures (1300-1700)

    International Conference at the Universities of Bern and Zurich, Switzerland 09‒11 September 2025 In the wake of new materialist theories, scholarship in sensation studies has paid increasing attention to the ways in which the nonhuman – animals, plants, objects – is entangled with human sensation. This conference explores the sensorial lives of the non-human itself…

  • Virtual Talk: Comets and Music In the Sun King’s Cosmos, a history

    The next meeting of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2024-2025 series will take place virtually on Friday, February 7th, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. (EST) (12:30-2 PST) via Zoom. Dr. Douglas Boyce and Dr. Claire Goldstein will deliver a talk titled “Comets and Music In the Sun King’s Cosmos, a history.” Link to Dr.…

  • Notes from Energy Transitions in Long Modernity and Oecologies Fall Event

    Anna Dobrowolski (UC Davis) On Friday, October 25, the Oecologies working group discussed Francis Bacon’s and Boccaccio’s versions of the Prometheus myth along with Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer’s introduction their Energy Humanities anthology. The conversation anticipates the upcoming conference, Energy Transitions in Long Modernity, which will take place at UCLA’s Clark Library on January…

  • Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ)

    The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in…