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 […]
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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