Oecologies

Inaugural Œ Reading Workshop!

  • Oecologies Panel: Common Environments

    Oecologies Panel: Common Environments

    9 April 2021 | 11 AM PST How might public scholarship contribute to reorienting the — or a — public’s understanding of our ecological presents and futures? Exploring possible answers to this question, Oecologies presents “Common Environments: Public-Facing Research and Premodern Cultures.” Engaging with today’s ecological, institutional, and political precarities, panelists will speak on what public-facing…

  • Inventing the Past at the Virginia Dare Winery

    Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis Back when I was freer to explore California, I was driving with my partner through Sonoma County, heading south on US 101, when I spotted a sign for the Virginia Dare winery in Geyserville. Recognizing the name, I urged him to pull over so we could check it…

  • Oecologies Reading Group: The Winter Sea Event

    Oecologies Reading Group: The Winter Sea Event

    16 March 2021 | 10:30 AM PST Please join us for our Oecologies Reading Group’s winter Sea event. Readings:Heuer, Christopher, “Arctic Ink,” (135-76) from Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image Duckert, Lowell. “Going Glacial,” (97-149) in For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes Should you wish to…

  • SF Bay Area Enriches Early Modern Book History: Breanne Weber

    This week in Contingent, Oecologies graduate representative Breanne Weber (PhD candidate, UC Davis) reflects on the scholarly benefits of local, embodied practice as she explores book arts in San Francisco’s Bay Area. Breanne’s experience inking and type-setting at the San Francisco Centre for the Book, together with visits to the American Bookbinders Museum and M&H Type…

  • Notes from “Earth, Sea, Sky: An Environmental Humanities Research Network Exchange”

    Laura Hutchingame, University of California Los Angeles On 12 December 2020, an international group of scholars shared their research over Zoom, as part of the Earth, Sea, Sky—Oecologies working group. The scholars were Todd Borlik (University of Huddersfield); Debapriya Sarkar (University of Connecticut); Liam Lewis (University of Liverpool); and Bronwen Wilson (UCLA). Todd Borlik discussed…