2023

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2 March, 4PM: Sean O’Brien (UCD), "Black Reproduction After Hurricane Katrina: Stagnation, Genre, and the Racialization of Foreclosure" Capital and Nature series

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9 March, 4PM: Stephanie Papa (UCD), "Poetry of the Body: Decolonial Relationality and Reimagining Resistance." 

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2022 Virtual Talks

 

31 March, 4pm:  Sandrine Ndahiro (Limerick), "Navigating an Apocalypse: Illuminating Trauma and Climate Survival Strategies in African Cultural Texts".

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12 May, 4pm: Faisal Hamadah, "Genres of Oil: Rent and the Writing of History".

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19 May, 4pm: Charis Olszok (Cambridge), on "Strange Energies: Ecocritical Readings of the Arabic Novel". 

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2 June, 4pm: Thomas Waller (Nottingham), "Brazilian Modernism and the Blue Cultural Fix". 

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16 June, 4pm: Rebecca Macklin (Edinburgh), "Nuclear Empires and Poetic Networks of Care: Indigenous Engagements with Afterlives of Colonial Nuclearization". *Postponed
 
23 June, 4pm: Shabeena Kuttay (Department of Higher Education, Jammu and Kashmir), “The Defence of Planetarity in the Age of Liberal Logic: The Eco-critical Discourse of Arundhati Roy”. 

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6 Oct, 4PM: David Farrier (Edinburgh): "'It's not really an emergency if you can drive around it': Visualising the Climate Crisis in Alexandra Kleeman's Something New Under the Sun" 

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13 Oct, 4PM: Dominic O'Key (Sheffield), 'Processing Extinction, Or, How the Environmental Humanities Thinks Through the Sixth Mass Extinction Event'

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24 Nov, 4PM: Hiroki Shin (QUB), 'Energy Transitions on Display: The Past, Present and Future of Energy and Energy Exhibitions'

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2021 

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4 Feb, 4pm: Jared Margulies (Alabama), ‘Watching extinction in cactus country, or what I learned about flourishing from a cactus on a doomed mountain.’ 

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25 Feb, 4pm: Launch Event for ‘Writing in the Pause’ (Plumwood Mountain, Vol. 7 no. 2) with Ian Davidson, Ghazal Mosadeq, James Thomas Stevens and Jonathan Skinner. 

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26 Mar, 4pm: ‘Monitoring Microbes: Diagnostics, Surveillance Systems, and The Politics of Preparedness’, Ann Kelly (KCL), Frédéric Keck (CNRS, Paris), and Claas Kirchelle (UCD).

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1 Apr, 4pm: Mark Clare, artist in residence at UCD & Dun Laoghaire County Council. ‘The Unavoidable Interconnectedness of Everything.’ 

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5 May, 4pm: Josephine Taylor (RHUL), ‘Energy Futures and the Failure of Mastery: Alternative Relations in Science Fiction.’ 

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13 May, 4pm: Martin Arboleda (Universidad Diego Portales), talk based on Governing Utopia: on Planning and Popular Power.  Joint event with Durham Centre for Culture and Ecology. 

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20 May, 4pm: Nicole Seymour (CSU): ‘Facing the Plasticene: Object Lessons from Glitter’. 

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4 June, 4pm: Harriet Tarlo (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Tamed landscapes, wild cultivars: writing poetry in 2021’. 

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Funded by UCD College of Arts and Humanities Funding for Research Activity 2021-2023.