Symposium on the Future of the Environmental Humanities

Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/25/2015
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
JFSB B192

Category(ies)

• Research Group Meetings
• Symposia

Co-sponsored with the University of Utah, The Future of the Environmental Humanities symposium will begin at the University of Utah on Thursday evening, but starting at 2:00 pm on September 25th, it will move to the BYU campus for two events.

First will be an address by William Jordan, author of The Sunflower Forest, at 2:00 pm in the EIZ auditorium. His topic will be “Mortal Interdebtedness: Making sense of ecological restoration, a case study in the practice of the humanities.”

Then starting at 3:45-5:30, also in the EIZ auditorium, we will have a panel of three papers. The title of the panel is “The Challenge of Tracing the Anthropocene” and the papers and presenters are the following:

Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA): “Maritime Futures of the Anthropocene”

Chip Oscarson (BYU):  “Toxicity and Melting Ice: The Challenge of the Anthropocene in Nordic Cinema”

Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois): “Versed in Country Things”: Robert Frost, Sustainability, and the End of Elegy”