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 […]
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 […]
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Political & Environmental Crisis in Science Fiction"
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 […]
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 […]
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Liminal Realism & Poetic Echoes of the Earth"
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 […]
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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…
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 […]
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March 23–27, 2021 This screening of Esther Figueroa’s Fly Me to the Moon (2019) is available to registered participants through Vimeo, March 23–27. Fly Me to the Moon (2019), is a feature documentary by Jamaican independent filmmaker Esther Figueroa, that takes us on a journey into the unexpected ways we are all connected on Planet Earth, […]
Terry Harpold proposes reading ecocomix with an eye to our own roles in the story…
February 12-13, 2021 UF Levin College of Law University of Florida For 27 years, the Public Interest Environmental Conference (PIEC) has sought to promote an understanding of the legal aspects of environmental protection, serve and inform individuals as to the necessity for improvements in environmental law, foster the development of sound environmental legislation, measure […]
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Visions for a Sustainable & Just Future"