The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]
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33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)
Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged ASLE, canon, canonism & anti-canonism, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, environmental studies, John Lane on April 9, 2015 | 10 Comments »
OAD update
Posted in Academe, tagged anthropology, Cuba, OAD, Santeria, Todd Ramon Ochoa on March 12, 2015 | 1 Comment »
That stands for “Ontology Across the Disciplines,” which is the UVM faculty (and grad student) reading group that I said I’d keep readers updated on. I’ve been a bit remiss with that, as we had a meeting 3 weeks ago and will be meeting again at 4 p.m. today. Here is a one-page handout (click for PDF) I’ve sent […]
Appearances
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged CENHS, ecocinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image, Harman, Latour, religious studies, SCMS on March 9, 2015 | 5 Comments »
My review of Graham Harman’s recent book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, has been published online in the journal Global Discourse. It’s part of a book review symposium, which will be accompanied (in the print issue) by the author’s reply to his interlocutors. The journal has been publishing a lot on Latour’s political theory (see here). I especially […]
Hiring…
Posted in Academe, tagged environmental studies, faculty positions, sustainability studies on December 11, 2014 | 4 Comments »
Note: This is an updated version of a previously posted notice. Our Environmental Studies program has announced a cluster hire — a search for three new tenure-track professors, at multiple levels from Assistant Professor to Program Director, under the overall umbrella of “Sustainability Studies and Global Environmental Equity.” Details on the cluster hire can be read here. Details on […]
Notes from Underground (ASLE) CFP
Posted in Academe, tagged ASLE, conferences, ecocriticism on November 12, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
The deadline for proposals to next year’s Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference — arguably the largest and leading ecocritical conference in the world — is coming up in a few weeks. The conference theme is “Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice.” Keynotes will include Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, […]
Under Western Skies 3
Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged Bruno Latour, conferences, environmental studies, Under Western Skies on August 27, 2014 | 2 Comments »
The preliminary program is up for the third Under Western Skies conference, “Intersections of Environments, Technologies, Communities,” which will be held in a couple of weeks at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. And it looks fantastic. I think the biennial UWS gatherings are becoming one of the leading interdisciplinary forums for environmental thinking, critique, and […]
Top humanists: final results
Posted in Academe, tagged citations, Foucault, humanists, humanities on June 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Since most of us love lists — or at least love and hate them simultaneously — here is the updated version of the “Top humanities theorists of the last century” list. See the previous version for the full criteria and the caveats. Briefly: it’s a list of the most cited humanities theorists of the last 100 years (roughly) according to their […]
Ethics of live-blogging
Posted in Academe, tagged blogging ethics, live-blogging, online publishing on May 19, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Brian Leiter’s blog recently hosted some interesting conversations on the ethics of live-blogging academic talks. I’ve done that a few times, but always tried to get the live-blogged speaker’s permission, if not in advance then immediately afterward, and always offering to take the notes down if the speaker preferred that. (No one has requested that from me yet.) […]
Prize announcement
Posted in Academe, tagged humanities on May 19, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Announcing a competition: Which scholars should be on the list of “Top humanists of the last century” but are not? The person who names the greatest number of such names by the end of the day (12 midnight) EST next Sunday — using the methodology specified there (a simple Google Scholar search) — will win a copy […]
Top humanists of the last century
Posted in Academe, tagged canon, humanities on May 18, 2014 | 18 Comments »
A theme that’s been coming up in my conversations recently (including when visiting UC Davis) is the question of the “humanities canon”: i.e., who are the theorists whose views have been most influential in shaping the humanities disciplines, especially over the last century or so? And more specifically, is there anything approximating an “environmental humanities canon,” and who are […]
The discipline of interdiscipline
Posted in Academe, tagged environmental humanities, environmental studies, grad student advice, interdisciplinarity, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, transdisciplinarity on May 16, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
The Rachel Carson Center’s Minding the Gap: Working Across Disciplines in Environmental Studies has come out (in PDF and MOBI formats). It includes pieces by Gregg Mitman, Rob Nixon, SueEllen Campbell, John Meyer, Basarab Nicolescu, and others. My piece, “The Discipline of Interdisciplines” (pp. 11-13), is intended as something of a collective statement from my generation […]
Announcing A(S)CENE
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene on January 21, 2014 | 1 Comment »
A new blog has been launched in conjunction with my class “Environment, Science, and Society in the Anthropocene.” It’s called A(S)CENE and its tag line is “Beyond the Anthropocene: Bracketing an Era.” A(S)CENE is a blog dedicated to discussions of the Anthropo(s)cene — the scene of humanity’s ascendance to a biogeological force — and of […]