Oecologies

May Œ Writing Workshop!

  • 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…

  • Notes from “Common Environments: Public-Facing Research and Premodern Cultures”

    Sharon O’Dair, University of Alabama On April 9, 2021, the Oecologies Research Cluster hosted a Zoom webinar on the topic of Common Environments:  Public-Facing Research and Premodern Cultures.  Moderating the event was Courtney Barajas (Whitworth) and presenters were Brenna Duperron (Dalhousie), Ruben Espinosa (Texas, El Paso), Sarah-Nelle Jackson (UBC), and Jeffrey Wilson (Harvard).  Approximately twenty-five…

  • There’s nothing new about the end of the world: Dread and decolonization

    Jastej Luddu and Fenn Stewart1 For the past year and a half, and all the way through the pandemic, the two of us have been talking (and writing emails) about dread. We’re mostly interested in the usefulness, and uselessness, of different kinds of dread in response to the interconnected (and ongoing) catastrophes of colonialism and…

  • Spring Sea Event

    Spring Sea Event

    Friday May 21st, 2021 | 10:30-12PSTZoom Co-led by: Tiffany Jo Werth and Andrés Reséndez We will be studying and exploring the history and scholarship around Sir Francis Drake’s “fair and good bay.” Readings: TBA For readings and details, please RSVP by May 14th to kschuhmacher@ucdavis.edu.