Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/06/2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
4010 JFSB
Category(ies)
George Handley, Professor of Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Humanities and Coordinator of Global Environmental Studies at Brigham Young University will join the Humanities Center this week on Thursday, March 6th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. His presentation will examine the current climate crisis and how literature in the Anthropocene offers valuable environmental insights that align with contemporary ecotheology. Refreshments will be served.
Title: “Literature as Theodicy: Exploring the Postsecularity of Literature in a Time of Climate Crisis”
Based on his recent book, Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos, George Handley will explore the grounds for reading literature as a form of ecotheology. In our contemporary understanding of the long history of earth’s development and the emergence of life, nature has become less predictable and more violent than we in our contemporary use of technology have wanted to imagine. Moreover, our current climate crisis portends increased risk and begs the question as to how we might define and motivate a different human role in nature that could change the direction of history. This presentation will explore the reasons why literature in the Anthropocene has now become an important repository of environmental and even cosmological wisdom that resembles and can partner with the best work in contemporary ecotheology.
