Oecologies

May Œ Writing Workshop!

  • Reading Notes from the Arctic: an Oecologies Reading Group

    Laura Hutchingame, University of California, Los AngelesZachary Korol-Gold, University of California, Irvine On 16 March 2021, scholars involved with the UCHRI Oecologies research group gathered to discuss two texts: “Arctic Ink” by Christopher Heuer (2019) and “Going Glacial” by Lowell Duckert (2017). Following introductions in breakout rooms, the group began by comparing the two readings.…

  • Notes from “On the sea and coastal ecologies: early modern pasts and uncertain futures” Virtual Research Share

    Kirsten Schuhmacher; University of California, Davis On January 19th, 2021, the University of California Humanities Research Institute working group, “On the sea and coastal ecologies: early modern pasts and uncertain futures,” participated in a generative virtual research share. Led by Principal Investigator, Tiffany Jo Werth (UC Davis), the following members of the multicampus faculty working…

  • 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…