Oecologies

May Œ Writing Workshop!

  • Notes from the Sea: An Oecologies Reading Group

    Tiffany Jo Werth, University of California, Davis On Saturday, November 13th, 2021, Dr. Tom White led a discussion amongst fifteen scholars from the U.S, the U.K., and Canada that engaged with two recent blue humanities publications: a chapter on “Interface” from Melody Jue’s Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press, 2020) and an…

  • Winter Sea to Sky Event

    Winter Sea to Sky Event

    Friday February 18th from 10:30-12:00PST Zoom Hosted by: Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia Readings:Calhoun, Alison, “What Cloud Machines Tell us About Early Modern Emotions,” Renaissance Quarterly, 68, no. 2 (2021): 102-113.Daston, Lorraine, “Cloud Physiognomy,” Representations, 135, no. 1 (2016): 45-71.Peters, John Durham. “The Times and Seasons: Sky Media II (Kairos).” In The Marvelous Clouds:…

  • 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