Ecomusicology & Relational Listening <br>in the Music of Lionel Loueke of Benin

Ecomusicology & Relational Listening
in the Music of Lionel Loueke of Benin

Sarah Politz December 6, 2022 Music Building 101 5:10 PM The recent emergence of the subfield of ecomusicology has raised provocative questions about theory and method in music studies, as well as relationships between sound, humans, and the environment. This presentation responds to these questions through an examination of two albums by the Beninese guitarist […]

Can We Have Reproductive Justice
in a Climate Crisis?

Jade Sasser (University of California, Riverside) September 20, 2022 Ustler Hall Atrium & via Zoom 5:30 PM (EST) Some climate scientists describe climate problems as problems of unrestrained population growth. Such discourses align closely with historical narratives blaming the fertility and reproduction of the poor, particularly women of color, for a range of social, political, […]

Silent Running
50th Anniversary Screening

Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida 7–9:30 PM October 13, 2022 Widely considered the most influential eco-science fiction film of all time, Silent Running (1972) is a stirring, beautiful, and uncannily prescient depiction of the terrible costs of environmental irresponsibility and the redemptive power of compassion and stewardship. The directorial debut of Douglas […]

Performing Resilience / For the Birds

Megan Moe Beitiks Kenya (Robinson) April 14, 2022 Ustler Hall Atrium 5:30 PM (EST) In this live performance/conversation, artists and frequent collaborators Meghan Moe Beitiks and Kenya (Robinson) will discuss human/nonhuman ecologies and how experiences of marginalization may produce ecological wisdom. The publication of Beitiks’ recent book, Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain (2021), prompts a […]

Latin America Writes Back 2.0:
Political & Environmental Crisis in Science Fiction

Smathers Library 100 University of Florida October 21–22, 2021 “Latin America Writes Back 2.0: Political and Environmental Crisis in Science Fiction” commemorates and extends UF’s landmark 2005 symposium “Latin America Writes Back.” That symposium identified UF as an early pioneer in the growing field of Latin American SF studies and featured talks by author/scholar […]

Hope Matters:
A Conversation with Elin Kelsey

September 17, 2021 Marston Library L-136 & via Zoom 12:50–1:40 PM (EST) We are at an inflection point: today, more people than ever before recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are urgent and existential threats. Yet constant reports of climate doom are fueling an epidemic of eco-anxiety, leaving many of us feeling hopeless and […]

Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
Liminal Realism & Poetic Echoes of the Earth

Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia August 26, 2021 Smathers 100 (Library East) & via Live Streaming 6:30–8:00 PM (EST) Archived streaming video of this event is available here. This lecture draws on a forthcoming monograph on the role of reenchantment and the resurfacing of the song of the Earth in contemporary environmental fiction, including works by […]

Plant Life: Exploring Vegetal Worlds in the Harn Museum Collection

August 3, 2021 – February 20, 2022 Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art Plants accompany every aspect of human life. We breathe in the oxygen they breathe out, we eat them (or we eat animals that eat them), we wear them, we make our dwellings and furnishings from them, we kill them when they are […]

ICC in the coming year…

ICC events include symposia, guest lectures, and readings by activists, artists, researchers and scholars working at the intersections of climate studies and the creative imagination…

Climate Catastrophe & the Vulnerability of Memory

Jeanne Ewert Kenneth Sassaman March 17, 2021 4–5:30 PM (EST) In this joint webinar, Jeanne Ewert and Kenneth Sassaman will present ongoing archival, geneaological, and archaeological research on the fates of once-thriving coastal communities upended by two of the most devastating Gulf Coast weather events of the late 19th century, the 1896 Cedar Keys Hurricane […]

Imagining Climate Change

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