Venice, October 18 – 2.00-4.00 p.m.
Ca’ Bottacin (Dorsoduro 3911), HSC seminar room (1st floor)
Registration is necessary: please email hsc@unive.it
The Center for the Humanities and Social Change is dedicating its third year to the role that the humanities can play in tackling the climate crisis affecting the planet. After the lecture by Serenella Iovino, we inaugurate our seminars with Elizabeth deLoughrey, Associate Professor in English and at the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, who will discuss The Postcolonial Roots of the Environmental Humanities.
Please sign up if you would like to attend: hsc@unive.it
Preparatory reading here (Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan, A postcolonial Environmental Humanities – Introduction to Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan (eds.) Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities. Postocolonial Approaches, Routledge, London 2015.
A seminar with Elizabeth deLoughrey: The Postcolonial Roots of the Environmental Humanities
October 18, 2019, 2.00-4.00 p,m.
This seminar is in English/Seminario in lingua inglese
Registration is necessary: please email hsc@unive.it