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Capitalism, Climate, and Cultural Study

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Environmental Humanities Research Cluster (HRI), Landscape Architecture
Location
Levis Faculty Center 210
Date
Sep 28, 2023 - Sep 29, 2023   All Day
Contact
John Barnard
E-Mail
jbarnard@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
HRI

This symposium will elaborate three basic ideas: that climate change constitutes a planetary emergency; that capitalism is a primary driver, both in the present and historically, of that emergency; and that literary and cultural studies are critical for understanding how we got into this predicament and for finding our way out. 

Symposium schedule

Thursday, September 28
5:00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 
Keynote Address: Anna Kornbluh, "Mediating Immediacy: Climate Crux & Collective Arts"

Friday, September 29
9:30 to 10:45 a.m., Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Panel: Elizabeth Chatterjee (History, University of Chicago); Stacey Balkan (English, Florida Atlantic University)

11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Panel: Paul Downes (English, University of Toronto); Jennifer James (George Washington University)

2:00 to 3:15 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Closing Roundtable

Sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Center for Advanced Studies, the Center for Global Studies, and the Departments of Landscape Architecture, English, History, and Comparative & World Literature.

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