Oecologies

Inaugural Œ Reading Workshop!

  • 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…

  • Notes from Oecologies Event: “Performance, Place, and Pedagogy”

    Courtney M. M. Morgan (Lewis-Clark State College) In May 2024, the Oecologies virtual event, “Performance, Place, and Pedagogy,” brought together scholars and practitioners from various fields to discuss the intersection of environmental activism, pedagogy, and performance. The presentations explored how environmental concerns shape both creative practices and educational approaches, highlighting the interconnectedness of art, place,…

  • Energy Transitions in Long Modernity Reading Group

    Energy Transitions in Long Modernity Reading Group

    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…