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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nClick here<\/strong><\/a> for L&E Fall 2022 Calendar!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n- Please join us on Monday, October 10th from 11:30 – 1:30 pm<\/strong> at the Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration (CCBER<\/a>) for a tour of the center’s natural collections including a herbaria tour led by Professor Greg Wahlert. <\/li>
- We also invite you to attend our Fall reading group on November 14th, 12:00 – 2:00 pm<\/strong> at SH2623 to share thoughts on Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss <\/em>and Mary Siisip Geniusz’s Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. <\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
2021-2022<\/h2>\n
Theme: Toxic Seas<\/p>\n
Click here<\/span><\/a> for L&E Fall 2021 Calendar!<\/h3>\nOct 22, 2021 — We kick off the new academic year in collaboration with the ACGCC Center by hosting a roundtable discussion with the three new faculty members of the department: Amrah Salom\u00f3n, Cathy Thomas, and Heidi Amin-Hong.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0<\/h3>\nClick here<\/a><\/span> for this quarter’s L&E Calendar!<\/h3>\n2020-2021<\/h2>\n
Theme: “Beyond the Index”– Living with Fire<\/p>\n
L&E Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nLit and Environment is proud to host SFRA President and famed environmental science fiction scholar Gerry Canavan (Marquette University) as he presents his current research on the cultural and political impacts of contemporary works by Kim Stanley Robinson<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_Gerry-Canavan-Flyer.png\")
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May 25th, 2021 — We continue our Graduate Student “Works in Progress” series, with presentations from Maite Urcaregui and Leah Norris<\/p>\n
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May 20th, 2021 — Our final, Spring Quarter meeting of the Undergraduate Book Club. For our final meeting, we held a “watch party” with two short films that trace hopeful speculative futures arising from our current moment of crisis, in addition to discussing Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_LE_Undergrad-Reading-Group-Flyer_Spring-2021.png\")
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February 17th, 2021–We continue our quarterly grad student “Works in Progress” series, with a special focus on the 2017 Thomas Fire. This event featured Sage Gerson and Mariano Nava Botello<\/p>\n
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Thursday, Feb 4th, 4-5pm (PST)–Lit and Environment is proud to host Prof. Danielle Celermajer, philosopher and multispecies justice activist, as she reads excerpts from her new work\u00a0Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future:<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screenshot_Danielle-Celermajer_Summertime.png\")
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Friday, Jan 29th, 2021–our Winter quarter meeting of the yearlong Undergraduate Reading Club series. This year, we are focusing on Sarah Jaquette Ray’s\u00a0A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screenshot_Winter-Undergrad-Reading-Group.png\")
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On Friday, Nov 20th, 2020–our quarterly grad student “Works in Progress” series, our first of the academic year. This event featured Maile Aihua Young and R Baker<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThursday, Nov 12th, 2-3pm. Dr. Samantha Joye–an oceanographer famous for her work on deep-sea brine pools and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill–shares her experience of working with the BBC and being chief science advisor for the development of the award-winning ocean conservation video game, Beyond Blue:<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_Beyond-Blue.png\")
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Friday, October 30th, 3-4 pm. L & E undergraduate book club kickoff! This is the first of three meetings we will have throughout the year. This year, we will be reading Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety\u00a0<\/em>(2020):<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_Undergrad-Reading-Group-Flyer.png\")
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2-3:15 pm. L&E presents seaweed artist Josie Iselin on her latest work,\u00a0The Curious World of Seaweed<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_Josie-Iselin-Curious-World-of-Seaweed.png\")
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L&E Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nTuesday, February 26th, 3pm. L&E presents “Slow Counter-Violence: Why Literature Matters in an Era of Climate Crisis,” a talk by University of Oregon Moore Endowed Professor Stephanie LeMenager. Reception to follow.<\/p>\n
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\nL&E Co-Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday-Sunday, March 1st-3rd.\u00a0UCSB AIIC<\/span> 2019 SYMPOSIUM: Decolonizing our Lives.<\/span><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/sites.google.com\/prod\/view\/decolonizingourlives<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-27-at-8.18.42-PM.png\")
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\nSaturday, December 1st, 12pm-3pm.\u00a0Roundtable with Chickasaw author and poet Linda Hogan.<\/p>\n
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\nFriday, November 16th, 9am-5pm. Queer and Trans Graduate Student Union’s first<\/span> grad student conference<\/span>, “Envisioning<\/span> LGBTQIA+ Well Being.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/46151949_10217751530677673_6625654010961461248_o-797x1030.jpg\")
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Theme: Environmental Justice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nL&E events:<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday October 6th<\/sup>, 1-2.30pm. Welcome event & Research Snapshot Presentations.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-06-at-8.03.35-PM.png\")
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\nFriday October 20th<\/sup>, 1pm. Nicole Seymour<\/a> (Cal State Fullerton).<\/p>\nNicole Seymour\u2019s first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy and the Queer Ecological Imagination<\/em>, won the 2015 scholarly book award from the Association for\u00a0the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Her forthcoming book, Bad Environmentalism: Affect and Dissent in the Ecological Age <\/em>(University of Minnesota Press),\u00a0recuperates irreverent and anti-sentimental expressions of environmentalism.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-06-at-8.02.50-PM.png\")
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\nWednesday November 15th, 2pm. International Scholars Event.<\/p>\n
Join us as we welcome two Swedish scholars–Fredrik Svensson<\/a>\u00a0(Karlstad University) & Daniel Helsing<\/a>\u00a0(Lund University)–whose work speaks to the ways in which ecocriticism and the environmental humanities are being conducted in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-18-at-9.49.47-PM.png\")
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\nFriday February 9th, 1pm.\u00a0<\/span>Neel Ahuja<\/a> (UC Santa Cruz).<\/p>\nNeel Ahuja\u2019s research\u00a0explores the relationship of the body to\u00a0the geopolitical and environmental contexts of colonial governance, warfare, and security.\u00a0He is the author of the book Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species <\/em>(Duke UP) and has written a series of essays on the transnational politics\u00a0of human-animal relations. He is currently working on a new writing project analyzing global relationships between migration, war, and climate change.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-20-at-4.00.54-PM.png\")
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2021-2022<\/h2>\n
Theme: Toxic Seas<\/p>\n
Click here<\/span><\/a> for L&E Fall 2021 Calendar!<\/h3>\nOct 22, 2021 — We kick off the new academic year in collaboration with the ACGCC Center by hosting a roundtable discussion with the three new faculty members of the department: Amrah Salom\u00f3n, Cathy Thomas, and Heidi Amin-Hong.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0<\/h3>\nClick here<\/a><\/span> for this quarter’s L&E Calendar!<\/h3>\n2020-2021<\/h2>\n
Theme: “Beyond the Index”– Living with Fire<\/p>\n
L&E Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nLit and Environment is proud to host SFRA President and famed environmental science fiction scholar Gerry Canavan (Marquette University) as he presents his current research on the cultural and political impacts of contemporary works by Kim Stanley Robinson<\/p>\n
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May 25th, 2021 — We continue our Graduate Student “Works in Progress” series, with presentations from Maite Urcaregui and Leah Norris<\/p>\n
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May 20th, 2021 — Our final, Spring Quarter meeting of the Undergraduate Book Club. For our final meeting, we held a “watch party” with two short films that trace hopeful speculative futures arising from our current moment of crisis, in addition to discussing Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
February 17th, 2021–We continue our quarterly grad student “Works in Progress” series, with a special focus on the 2017 Thomas Fire. This event featured Sage Gerson and Mariano Nava Botello<\/p>\n
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Thursday, Feb 4th, 4-5pm (PST)–Lit and Environment is proud to host Prof. Danielle Celermajer, philosopher and multispecies justice activist, as she reads excerpts from her new work\u00a0Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Friday, Jan 29th, 2021–our Winter quarter meeting of the yearlong Undergraduate Reading Club series. This year, we are focusing on Sarah Jaquette Ray’s\u00a0A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On Friday, Nov 20th, 2020–our quarterly grad student “Works in Progress” series, our first of the academic year. This event featured Maile Aihua Young and R Baker<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThursday, Nov 12th, 2-3pm. Dr. Samantha Joye–an oceanographer famous for her work on deep-sea brine pools and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill–shares her experience of working with the BBC and being chief science advisor for the development of the award-winning ocean conservation video game, Beyond Blue:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Friday, October 30th, 3-4 pm. L & E undergraduate book club kickoff! This is the first of three meetings we will have throughout the year. This year, we will be reading Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety\u00a0<\/em>(2020):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Thursday, October 22nd, 2-3:15 pm. L&E presents seaweed artist Josie Iselin on her latest work,\u00a0The Curious World of Seaweed<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
2018-2019<\/h2>\n
L&E Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nTuesday, February 26th, 3pm. L&E presents “Slow Counter-Violence: Why Literature Matters in an Era of Climate Crisis,” a talk by University of Oregon Moore Endowed Professor Stephanie LeMenager. Reception to follow.<\/p>\n
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\nL&E Co-Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday-Sunday, March 1st-3rd.\u00a0UCSB AIIC<\/span> 2019 SYMPOSIUM: Decolonizing our Lives.<\/span><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/sites.google.com\/prod\/view\/decolonizingourlives<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nSaturday, December 1st, 12pm-3pm.\u00a0Roundtable with Chickasaw author and poet Linda Hogan.<\/p>\n
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\nFriday, November 16th, 9am-5pm. Queer and Trans Graduate Student Union’s first<\/span> grad student conference<\/span>, “Envisioning<\/span> LGBTQIA+ Well Being.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n2017-2018<\/h2>\n
Theme: Environmental Justice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nL&E events:<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday October 6th<\/sup>, 1-2.30pm. Welcome event & Research Snapshot Presentations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nFriday October 20th<\/sup>, 1pm. Nicole Seymour<\/a> (Cal State Fullerton).<\/p>\nNicole Seymour\u2019s first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy and the Queer Ecological Imagination<\/em>, won the 2015 scholarly book award from the Association for\u00a0the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Her forthcoming book, Bad Environmentalism: Affect and Dissent in the Ecological Age <\/em>(University of Minnesota Press),\u00a0recuperates irreverent and anti-sentimental expressions of environmentalism.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nWednesday November 15th, 2pm. International Scholars Event.<\/p>\n
Join us as we welcome two Swedish scholars–Fredrik Svensson<\/a>\u00a0(Karlstad University) & Daniel Helsing<\/a>\u00a0(Lund University)–whose work speaks to the ways in which ecocriticism and the environmental humanities are being conducted in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nFriday February 9th, 1pm.\u00a0<\/span>Neel Ahuja<\/a> (UC Santa Cruz).<\/p>\nNeel Ahuja\u2019s research\u00a0explores the relationship of the body to\u00a0the geopolitical and environmental contexts of colonial governance, warfare, and security.\u00a0He is the author of the book Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species <\/em>(Duke UP) and has written a series of essays on the transnational politics\u00a0of human-animal relations. He is currently working on a new writing project analyzing global relationships between migration, war, and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nClick here<\/a><\/span> for this quarter’s L&E Calendar!<\/h3>\n2020-2021<\/h2>\n
Theme: “Beyond the Index”– Living with Fire<\/p>\n
L&E Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nLit and Environment is proud to host SFRA President and famed environmental science fiction scholar Gerry Canavan (Marquette University) as he presents his current research on the cultural and political impacts of contemporary works by Kim Stanley Robinson<\/p>\n
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May 25th, 2021 — We continue our Graduate Student “Works in Progress” series, with presentations from Maite Urcaregui and Leah Norris<\/p>\n
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May 20th, 2021 — Our final, Spring Quarter meeting of the Undergraduate Book Club. For our final meeting, we held a “watch party” with two short films that trace hopeful speculative futures arising from our current moment of crisis, in addition to discussing Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
February 17th, 2021–We continue our quarterly grad student “Works in Progress” series, with a special focus on the 2017 Thomas Fire. This event featured Sage Gerson and Mariano Nava Botello<\/p>\n
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Thursday, Feb 4th, 4-5pm (PST)–Lit and Environment is proud to host Prof. Danielle Celermajer, philosopher and multispecies justice activist, as she reads excerpts from her new work\u00a0Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Friday, Jan 29th, 2021–our Winter quarter meeting of the yearlong Undergraduate Reading Club series. This year, we are focusing on Sarah Jaquette Ray’s\u00a0A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On Friday, Nov 20th, 2020–our quarterly grad student “Works in Progress” series, our first of the academic year. This event featured Maile Aihua Young and R Baker<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThursday, Nov 12th, 2-3pm. Dr. Samantha Joye–an oceanographer famous for her work on deep-sea brine pools and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill–shares her experience of working with the BBC and being chief science advisor for the development of the award-winning ocean conservation video game, Beyond Blue:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Friday, October 30th, 3-4 pm. L & E undergraduate book club kickoff! This is the first of three meetings we will have throughout the year. This year, we will be reading Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety\u00a0<\/em>(2020):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Thursday, October 22nd, 2-3:15 pm. L&E presents seaweed artist Josie Iselin on her latest work,\u00a0The Curious World of Seaweed<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
2018-2019<\/h2>\n
L&E Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nTuesday, February 26th, 3pm. L&E presents “Slow Counter-Violence: Why Literature Matters in an Era of Climate Crisis,” a talk by University of Oregon Moore Endowed Professor Stephanie LeMenager. Reception to follow.<\/p>\n
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\nL&E Co-Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday-Sunday, March 1st-3rd.\u00a0UCSB AIIC<\/span> 2019 SYMPOSIUM: Decolonizing our Lives.<\/span><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/sites.google.com\/prod\/view\/decolonizingourlives<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nSaturday, December 1st, 12pm-3pm.\u00a0Roundtable with Chickasaw author and poet Linda Hogan.<\/p>\n
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\nFriday, November 16th, 9am-5pm. Queer and Trans Graduate Student Union’s first<\/span> grad student conference<\/span>, “Envisioning<\/span> LGBTQIA+ Well Being.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n2017-2018<\/h2>\n
Theme: Environmental Justice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nL&E events:<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday October 6th<\/sup>, 1-2.30pm. Welcome event & Research Snapshot Presentations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nFriday October 20th<\/sup>, 1pm. Nicole Seymour<\/a> (Cal State Fullerton).<\/p>\nNicole Seymour\u2019s first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy and the Queer Ecological Imagination<\/em>, won the 2015 scholarly book award from the Association for\u00a0the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Her forthcoming book, Bad Environmentalism: Affect and Dissent in the Ecological Age <\/em>(University of Minnesota Press),\u00a0recuperates irreverent and anti-sentimental expressions of environmentalism.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nWednesday November 15th, 2pm. International Scholars Event.<\/p>\n
Join us as we welcome two Swedish scholars–Fredrik Svensson<\/a>\u00a0(Karlstad University) & Daniel Helsing<\/a>\u00a0(Lund University)–whose work speaks to the ways in which ecocriticism and the environmental humanities are being conducted in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nFriday February 9th, 1pm.\u00a0<\/span>Neel Ahuja<\/a> (UC Santa Cruz).<\/p>\nNeel Ahuja\u2019s research\u00a0explores the relationship of the body to\u00a0the geopolitical and environmental contexts of colonial governance, warfare, and security.\u00a0He is the author of the book Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species <\/em>(Duke UP) and has written a series of essays on the transnational politics\u00a0of human-animal relations. He is currently working on a new writing project analyzing global relationships between migration, war, and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Lit and Environment is proud to host SFRA President and famed environmental science fiction scholar Gerry Canavan (Marquette University) as he presents his current research on the cultural and political impacts of contemporary works by Kim Stanley Robinson<\/p>\n
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May 25th, 2021 — We continue our Graduate Student “Works in Progress” series, with presentations from Maite Urcaregui and Leah Norris<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
May 20th, 2021 — Our final, Spring Quarter meeting of the Undergraduate Book Club. For our final meeting, we held a “watch party” with two short films that trace hopeful speculative futures arising from our current moment of crisis, in addition to discussing Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety<\/em><\/p>\n February 17th, 2021–We continue our quarterly grad student “Works in Progress” series, with a special focus on the 2017 Thomas Fire. This event featured Sage Gerson and Mariano Nava Botello<\/p>\n Thursday, Feb 4th, 4-5pm (PST)–Lit and Environment is proud to host Prof. Danielle Celermajer, philosopher and multispecies justice activist, as she reads excerpts from her new work\u00a0Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future:<\/em><\/p>\n Friday, Jan 29th, 2021–our Winter quarter meeting of the yearlong Undergraduate Reading Club series. This year, we are focusing on Sarah Jaquette Ray’s\u00a0A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n On Friday, Nov 20th, 2020–our quarterly grad student “Works in Progress” series, our first of the academic year. This event featured Maile Aihua Young and R Baker<\/p>\n Thursday, Nov 12th, 2-3pm. Dr. Samantha Joye–an oceanographer famous for her work on deep-sea brine pools and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill–shares her experience of working with the BBC and being chief science advisor for the development of the award-winning ocean conservation video game, Beyond Blue:<\/em><\/p>\n Friday, October 30th, 3-4 pm. L & E undergraduate book club kickoff! This is the first of three meetings we will have throughout the year. This year, we will be reading Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety\u00a0<\/em>(2020):<\/p>\n Thursday, October 22nd, 2-3:15 pm. L&E presents seaweed artist Josie Iselin on her latest work,\u00a0The Curious World of Seaweed<\/em><\/p>\n L&E Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, February 26th, 3pm. L&E presents “Slow Counter-Violence: Why Literature Matters in an Era of Climate Crisis,” a talk by University of Oregon Moore Endowed Professor Stephanie LeMenager. Reception to follow.<\/p>\n L&E Co-Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday-Sunday, March 1st-3rd.\u00a0UCSB AIIC<\/span> 2019 SYMPOSIUM: Decolonizing our Lives.<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/sites.google.com\/prod\/view\/decolonizingourlives<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Saturday, December 1st, 12pm-3pm.\u00a0Roundtable with Chickasaw author and poet Linda Hogan.<\/p>\n Friday, November 16th, 9am-5pm. Queer and Trans Graduate Student Union’s first<\/span> grad student conference<\/span>, “Envisioning<\/span> LGBTQIA+ Well Being.”<\/p>\n Theme: Environmental Justice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n L&E events:<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday October 6th<\/sup>, 1-2.30pm. Welcome event & Research Snapshot Presentations.<\/p>\n Friday October 20th<\/sup>, 1pm. Nicole Seymour<\/a> (Cal State Fullerton).<\/p>\n Nicole Seymour\u2019s first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy and the Queer Ecological Imagination<\/em>, won the 2015 scholarly book award from the Association for\u00a0the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Her forthcoming book, Bad Environmentalism: Affect and Dissent in the Ecological Age <\/em>(University of Minnesota Press),\u00a0recuperates irreverent and anti-sentimental expressions of environmentalism.<\/p>\n Wednesday November 15th, 2pm. International Scholars Event.<\/p>\n Join us as we welcome two Swedish scholars–Fredrik Svensson<\/a>\u00a0(Karlstad University) & Daniel Helsing<\/a>\u00a0(Lund University)–whose work speaks to the ways in which ecocriticism and the environmental humanities are being conducted in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n Friday February 9th, 1pm.\u00a0<\/span>Neel Ahuja<\/a> (UC Santa Cruz).<\/p>\n Neel Ahuja\u2019s research\u00a0explores the relationship of the body to\u00a0the geopolitical and environmental contexts of colonial governance, warfare, and security.\u00a0He is the author of the book Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species <\/em>(Duke UP) and has written a series of essays on the transnational politics\u00a0of human-animal relations. He is currently working on a new writing project analyzing global relationships between migration, war, and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n2018-2019<\/h2>\n
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