2024-2025 energies of energy The convening topic for 2024-2025 is "Energies of Energy," a meta-critical reflection on the emerging field of Energy Humanities in conversation with the traditional toolkit literary and cultural criticism. Our events will build upon the previous years’ discussion on the interrelationships between human collectivities and their so-called instruments, but this...
We had the pleasure of hosting esteemed Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty for our fourth and final meeting the 23-24 Academic Year. His talk took place on Friday, May 24, and was titled “Climate Change and the Politics of Difference.” It was followed by a Q&A session with the author, moderated by our team. You can watch...
For our first event of the Spring quarter, materia hosted a lecture and discussion with Prof. Carolyn Fornoff on her new book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change. Prof. Fornoff presented for about 40 minutes, followed by a Q&A session. You can watch the 40-minute presentation here. Presenter: Prof. Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University) Title: Land...
materia is thrilled to announce our first event of 2024, an Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Research Fair. materia is a DLCL Research Unit focused on anthropodecentrisms, Latin Americanist and otherwise. Our 2023-24 yearly theme is narratives of the sociotechnical: infrastructure, telos, and scale. What: a unique opportunity to engage with advanced graduate students currently working with environmental humanities from a diverse...
Last Fall, materia hosted a hybrid roundtable discussion of “On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: a Memo”, by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz, in collaboration with Bio/Geo/Cosmopolíticas and NYU – Buenos Aires. The event was held on Thursday, November 30th, at 9am PST/ 14h BsAs. It featured guests from several locations and perspectives: Noelia Billi...
𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊 is thrilled to invite you to our first event of the 2023-24 academic year: a hybrid roundtable discussion of "On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: a Memo", by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz, in collaboration with Bio/Geo/Cosmopolíticas and NYU - Buenos Aires. The event will be held on Thursday, November 30th, at 9am PST/ 14h BsAs. This international panel...
"Literatures of planetary thresholds", our last event of the Fall quarter 2022, focused on the role of literature and the imaginary in contexts where the so-called frontiers of "natural" spaces are being re-thought and redefined. It took place in Pigott Hall 252, on November 17, 2022, at noon, featuring Christian Galdón (Univ. Paris 1...
"The Rights of Nature and the Imagination," the second session of the two-day event "Framing Law and Humanities in/from the Global South," centered on the juridical personhood of nature, nonhuman rights, and the role of cultural production in conceptualizing these problems. The session, which took place on March 3 2022 via Zoom, featured: Alberto...
The first session of the two-day event "Framing Law & Humanities in/from the Global South" entailed a four-speaker roundtable, featuring: Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez (Associate Professor of Law, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Leila Neti, (Professor of English, Occidental College), Beth Piatote (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Native American Studies, UC Berkeley), and Marco...
Thomas Moynihan (historian) and Carolina Caycedo (artist) discussed the relationship between extraction and extinction in connection with the notion of political ecology. This event took place on February 10, 2022 via Zoom.
