LARCA and Tom Nurmi Environmental Humanities Workshop Series, March 2023
Université Paris Cité/ Environmental Humanities Workshop at LARCA UMR 8225 invites Tom Nurmi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology [NTNU, Trondheim] for two weeks.
Tom Nurmi is the author of Magnificent Decay: Melville and Ecology (University of Virginia Press, 2020), “Melville’s Foams” (Oxford Companion of Herman Melville, 2022), “Mineral Melville” (J19, 7:1, 2019). He is currently working on a book titled “Uranium Cadillac: Energy and the Work of Comparative Literature.”
You are cordially invited to the series of talks and seminars organized by Cécile Roudeau and Thomas Dutoit (Université de Lille) during his visit.
Contact: cecile.roudeau@gmail.com
1) Thursday, March 16, 4pm, Université Paris Cité, ODG 830/Zoom: Reading group on Extraction/Energy Humanities
Reading list (contact Cécile Roudeau to access texts)
Jeff Insko. “Emerson, Energy, Infrastructure,” The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Christopher Hanlon, forthcoming.
Jeff Insko. “Resource Extraction and Melville’s Extracts” Leviathan, forthcoming.
Usher, Philip John. “Incipit,” Exterraenan: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene, Fordham U, 2019.
Solarities from UMinn Press.
2) Friday, March 17, afternoon, 2pm. Université Paris Cité, ODG 830/zoom: A19 seminar (on nineteenth-century US literature).
-2pm: Pauline Pilote (Université de Bretagne Sud) : “Wizards of the West : Walter Scott et le roman historique américain” – discutant : Bruno Monfort (Université Paris Nanterre)
-3pm: Tom Nurmi (NTNU, Trondheim): “Waylaying Light: Emily Dickinson and the Sun”
3)Wednesday, March 22, 4pm. Université Paris Cité, ODG 830/zoom: Roundtable on “Teaching Environmental Humanities”
– Tom Nurmi (NTNU, Trondheim): “Environmental Humanities and Migration Studies in the Norwegian EFL Classroom”Graeme Macdonald (U of Warwick): about “ How to Do Carbon Ruins” – the Post-Fossil Museum concept built and designed for Climaginaries and showcased at COP26; about an IOS app which futures the city with different climate scenarios
– With the participation of Jeff Insko (Oakland U, Michigan) and Katie Ritson (Munich, Carson Center)
4) Thursday, March 23, 3pm. Université Paris Cité, ODG 830/zoom: Environmental Humanities Workshop.
–Katie Ritson (Munich, Carson Center): Blue Humanities “Offshore: Energy cultures of the North Sea”
– Tom Nurmi (NTNU, Trondheim): “1873”
– Graeme Macdonald (U of Warwick): “On the Gas Station as Central Site in Petro-Culture”
– Jeff Insko, (Oakland U, Michigan)- respondent.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Bénédicte Meillon (6 mars 2023). LARCA and Tom Nurmi Environmental Humanities Workshop Series, March 2023. Écopoétique. Consulté le 16 janvier 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/o1bg
