Oecologies

Inaugural Œ Reading Workshop!

  • Indigenous Ways of Knowing + (Pre)Modern Ecocriticisms: A Conversation

    Indigenous Ways of Knowing + (Pre)Modern Ecocriticisms: A Conversation

    11 February 2022 | 11:30am PST Please join us for “Indigenous Ways of Knowing + (Pre) Modern Ecocriticisms: A Conversation” on February 11, 2022 from 11:30-1:00 PST on Zoom. An array of possibilities arises when scholars decenter European epistemologies about the natural world and humans’ relationships with the land in favor of Indigenous epistemologies. Panelist:Chris…

  • Notes from “Ecologies and Economics: Premodern Extractions”

    Chelsea Keane, University of California- Riverside On Nov 5, 2021, the Oecologies Research Cluster hosted the Zoom webinar, “Ecologies and Economics: Premodern Extractions.” With opening and closing remarks by Oecologies co-directors Derrick Higginbotham (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) and Kenna Olsen (Mount Royal University), and moderation by Kirsten Schuhmacher (UC Davis), the event featured work…

  • Fall Sea Event

    Fall Sea Event

    Saturday November 13, 2021 | 10:30-12:00PSTZoom Readings:Melody Jue. “Interface: Breathing Underwater,” (34-70) in Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through SeawaterLiam Lewis. “Noise on the Ocean Before ‘Pollution’: The Voyage of Saint Brendan,” (1-21) in ISLE Recommended:Melody Jue. “Database: Proteus and the Digital,” (121-141) in Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater

  • Ecologies and Economics: Premodern Extractions

    Ecologies and Economics: Premodern Extractions

    5 November 2021 | 11 AM PST In the past and present, resource extraction has dramatically transformed the environment and social relations amongst people in the interest of economic growth, through varied techniques like mining and deforestation. How have premodern literary texts responded to these extractive practices and the transformations that they inaugurated? Can literary…

  • Year End Report 2020/2021 for “On the sea and coastal ecologies: early modern pasts and uncertain futures”

    Tiffany Jo Werth, University of California, Davis “Earth, Sea, Sky” (ESS) is an international research network collaborating with, and under the umbrella of, Oecologies. It fosters new international dialogue in studies of medieval and early modern literature and visual culture. Its central aim is to examine the varied and contested premodern approaches to the natural…