Oecologies

Inaugural Œ Reading Workshop!

  • Eisteddfod (‘Sitting’): Queering Oceanic Voyages

    By: Liam Lewis (University of Liverpool) and Vin Nardizzi (University of British Columbia) In May 2022 we met at Bodega Bay Marine Lab in California to reflect on queer ocean voyages. Sitting in full view of the gorgeous ocean, we celebrated our time together as creative creatures who had taken a journey and an imaginative…

  • Fall Sky Event: In Between Sea and Sky

    Fall Sky Event: In Between Sea and Sky

    The Middle Air, an “airy something,” and How Air Matters in the Early Modern Era Saturday October 15th from 10:30-12:00PDTZoom Led by: Tiffany Jo Werth For readings and details, please RSVP by October 12th to kschuhmacher@ucdavis.edu.

  • Oecologies CFP: “Ecogrief and Medieval Environmental Texts: Creating and Sustaining Pedagogical Networks” (Leeds IMC 2023)

    Call for Papers for Roundtable ProposalsSponsored by the Oecologies Research GroupInternational Medieval Congress (IMC 2023)03-06 July 2023University of Leeds The Oecologies Research Cluster invites proposals that will contribute to roundtable discussions that consider the networks and entanglements existing, possible, and necessary for the teaching of ecogrief and medieval environmental texts. These roundtables will actively bring…

  • “On the Sea and Coastal Ecologies:Early Modern Pasts and Uncertain Futures”: A SEA symposium at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory May 19-20, 2022

    “Sea,” the second part of multi-year collaboration “Earth, Sea, Sky,” took place at the UC Davis Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory in May.  The project’s principal investigators are Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), Dr. Bronwen Wilson (University of California, Los Angeles), Dr. Lyle Massey (University of California, Irvine) and international collaborators, Dr. Vin Nardizzi (University…

  • Notes from the Coast: an Oecologies Reading Group

    Ashley Sarpong, Yale University On Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022, the Oecologies research cluster convened a final virtual reading group for the 2021-2022 year, led by Dr. Tiffany Werth, to discuss accounts of Sir Francis Drake’s 1579 landing in the San Francisco Bay area using an ecocritical lens. The discussion centered on three excerpts…