This talk previews the monograph Breathing Aesthetics, in which Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the...
Public Lecture: Multiple Earths: Redescribing the Biosphere Professor Stephen Muecke, UNSW The Earth to which we all belong, inalienably, is undergoing a major metamorphosis. Our ways of knowing what is going on are struggling to keep up with the changes. Every discipline, including the arts, is rethinking...
About this event From open pits in remote mountains to flickering bits of digital information, from impending climate catastrophe to emerging markets in refuse and waste, the potentials and perils of our current moment seem to hang on extraction. Looking across political economy, environmental justice, energy...
The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Mark Terry and Michael Hewson, provides the latest scholarship on the various methods and approaches being used by environmental humanists to incorporate geomedia into their research and analyses. Chapters in the book examine such...
International Multispecies Research Symposium: Shifting Paradigms in Human-Animal Relations (May 24-26, 2022 - Online). Abstracts (350 words) due April 5; Full submissions due May 10. You do not have to make a submission to attend the symposium. Aims: Scholarly exploration and deeper understanding of intuitive interspecies communication...
Blue Extinction Call for Papers Two-day symposium hosted by ShARC, 7-8 July 2022 Aquatic species are threatened with extinction at an unprecedented rate due to the combined effects of overfishing, pollution, climate change, acidification, and other human impacts. Yet blue ecosystems have remained an overlooked and neglected...
CALL FOR PAPERS PUBLISHING WORKSHOP Storying climes of the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic Anthropogenic water bodies, multispecies vulnerability, and sustainable living 9-15 October 2021 | Online In partnership with My Climate Risk, a lighthouse activity of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Co-hosted by Royal Thimphu College (Royal University of Bhutan) and...
About the opportunity The School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) is seeking to appoint two Associate Lecturers / Lecturers in History. One position is focused on pre-1700 history and the other on post-1700. Candidates should hold a relevant PhD, an outstanding research profile and demonstrated...
Two panels of talks on extinction in aquatic environments, supported by ASLE-UKI and the Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre (ShARC) About this eventJoin us for two panels of talks on biodiversity loss in aquatic environments by experts in the humanities and the sciences. This event is...
Alternatives to the Anthropocene A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 145 Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2021 Co-Edited by Ashley Dawson and A. Naomi Paik This issue seeks submissions that examine the voices of those who fought against the development of the Anthropocene, the geological age...