ASLE 2027: Landscapes of Extinction
The multidisciplinary field of Extinction Studies attends to historical losses as well as those that are in progress and projected. With more than a million animal and plant species currently at risk and many other ways of being under existential threat, there is no end to the work of scholars, artists, and activists who address extinction in their work.
Guided by the conference theme “Territory: Terra, Terroir, and Terror,” this session seeks perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences on the relationship between ...
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl
By Mandy-Suzanne Wong. Graywolf Press, 2026.
“Mollusks’ innermost selves are absolute secrets because, not only do they hide in shells or distant habitats, but also that’s just how it is with innermost selves.”
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl collects Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s reminiscences, dreams, investigations, and experiments in being with small invertebrates whose vulnerability and creativity inspire radical reimaginings of Earthlinghood. In graceful linked essays, Wong wonders: What constitutes a self if a starfish can twist off one of his arms to explore the seafloor on its own? ...