Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Meditations from the Shoal”

Tiffany King, an associate professor of women, gender and sexuality at the University of Virginia, will present “Meditations from the Shoal” via Zoom — click here to join.

King will think with errant and offshore practices of Black intimate encounters with the environment. Focusing on Black erotic practices that involve dirt, mud and earth, she will ask how Black erotic ecologies reimagine human/more-than-human hierarchies and reorganize sensorium(s).

King, who will be the Spring 2022 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton, is the first speaker in the fall 2021 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This talk is co-sponsored by the programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies and in American Studies.

Additional dates and speakers in this series are below.

October 6

“On Black Breath”
Kimberly Bain, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia

November 17

“Another Sky: Dreams of Ecological Futures For Dismantling the Anthropocene”
Felipe Milanez, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Culture and Society, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)

 

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Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Meditations from the Shoal”

Event Date

Wed, Sep 22, 2021 ・ 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Location

Online via Zoom

Category

Tiffany King, an associate professor of women, gender and sexuality at the University of Virginia, will present “Meditations from the Shoal” via Zoom — click here to join.

King will think with errant and offshore practices of Black intimate encounters with the environment. Focusing on Black erotic practices that involve dirt, mud and earth, she will ask how Black erotic ecologies reimagine human/more-than-human hierarchies and reorganize sensorium(s).

King, who will be the Spring 2022 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton, is the first speaker in the fall 2021 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This talk is co-sponsored by the programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies and in American Studies.

Additional dates and speakers in this series are below.

October 6

“On Black Breath”
Kimberly Bain, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia

November 17

“Another Sky: Dreams of Ecological Futures For Dismantling the Anthropocene”
Felipe Milanez, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Culture and Society, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)