We are delighted to announce the themes and participants in our 2023-24 ASLE Spotlight series.
Each of our four ASLE Spotlight episodes will feature moderated conversations with ASLE members who have produced new critical and creative work in the environmental humanities. Episodes follow a theme, and highlight publicly engaged scholarship. They will be recorded for later viewing, and posted to ASLE Spotlight and to our Spotlight Channel on YouTube.
Registration is free but required for the live episodes, and space is limited. Priority will be given to ASLE members, but all are welcome to sign up and will be accommodated if space is available; a waitlist will be kept as needed. Links to registration for each episode, and a list of the creators/authors featured, is below. More details on the guests will be added soon!
EPISODE 1: COMMUNITY AND COLLABORATION
Recorded Friday, November 3, 2023
Read More and View EpisodeCo hosts: Petra Kuppers and George Handley
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Mildred K. Barya, The Animals of My Earth School
- Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira, Breathing in a Time of Disaster
- Ursula Heise, Environment and Narrative in Vietnam (forthcoming, co-edited with Chi Pham)
- Naomi Ortiz, Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice
EPISODE 2: WATERY ECOLOGIES
Recorded Friday, December 1, 2023
Read More and View EpisodeCo-hosts: Serpil Oppermann and Gisela Heffes
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Jeremy Chow, The Queerness of Water
- Tania Haberland, The Torrid Zone
- Kim Trainor, Hwlhits’um | signs
- Sofia Varino and May Joseph, Aquatopia: Climate Interventions
EPISODE 3: Extinctions and Extractions
Friday, January 26, 2024
1-2pm EST
Co-hosts: Dominic O’Key and Sumita Chakraborty
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Kate Rigby, Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
- Kory Russel, Designing for the Intimate Shared Reality of All Species
- Béatrice Szymkowiak, B/RDS
- Michael Tondre, Oil! by Upton Sinclair
EPISODE 4: Ecologies of Place and Resilience
Friday, February 23, 2024
1-2pm Eastern
Co-hosts: Kate Huber and Aubrey Streit Krug
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Alison Turner, Defensible Spaces
- Heather Alexis Smith, The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550
- David Taylor, Cuban Earth
- Jessica Cory, Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place (Use code 08APPECO for 30% off this title at checkout. View Appalachian EcocriticismFlyer)
