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 …