American Indian Studies Program

Modern Critical Theory Lecture: ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES - John Levi Barnard & Pollyanna Rhee

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Location

Levis 210

Date

Nov 18, 2025   5:15 pm  

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11/18  ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES dialogue

John Levi Barnard (English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)  

• Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Critical Inquiry 35 (2009): 197-222.

  Walter Johnson, “On Agency,” Journal of Social History 37.1 (2003): 113-124.

• Bathsheba Demuth, “On the Agency of Environmental History,” Journal of Social History 57.3 (2024): 398-403.

• Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford UP, 2014), 1-19.

• Matthew Huber, Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), 155-169.