Water Works: The Arts of Water Management, 1500-1800
Water Works: The Arts of Water Management, 1500-1800 Institute of Humanities, Northumbria University, 22 June 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS At a time of environmental crisis, studying histories of the manipulation of natural resources has never been more important. While our ancestors used different terms to talk of such matters, they engaged with (or stridently disengaged from) the same questions.
This symposium, which has been generously supported by the Institute of Humanities at Northumbria University (UK), aims to draw together expertise from across disciplines to engage with managed ...
Labors of Love and Loss: Radical Acts of Human, Plant, and Nonhuman Mothering
“How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?” ― Rachel Cusk, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother
“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?” ― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
As we enter year three of the global pandemic, it is clear that mothering is both essential and chronically undervalued. For the two editors of this special issue, we are among millions who are raising ...
MLA Proposed Panel: Collaborative Textual Production and/in Environmental Thought
Collaborative Textual Production and/in Environmental Thought
Non-guaranteed ASLE Panel for MLA 2023
Social scientists studying environmental justice in the United States such as Laura Pulido (1996) and Tracy Perkins (2021) have noted for decades that various EJ efforts have involved or succeed because they involved collaborations across ethnic or racial lines, but there remains little scholarship on such collaborations or collaborative authorship more broadly in many areas of the environmental humanities. Studies of collaborative authorship, such as Linda Karell’s Writing Together, Writing Apart (2002), do ...