Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Meditations from the Shoal”

 

Tiffany King, an associate professor of women, gender and sexuality at the University of Virginia, presented “Meditations from the Shoal” via Zoom.

King thought with errant and offshore practices of Black intimate encounters with the environment. Focusing on Black erotic practices that involve dirt, mud and earth, she asked 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, was the first speaker in the fall 2021 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This talk was co-sponsored by the programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies and in American Studies.

Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Meditations from the Shoal”

Publish Date

September 22, 2021

Presenter(s)

Tiffany King

Link to Video

https://youtu.be/DK-0384HNhk

Video Length

01:17:58

 

Tiffany King, an associate professor of women, gender and sexuality at the University of Virginia, presented “Meditations from the Shoal” via Zoom.

King thought with errant and offshore practices of Black intimate encounters with the environment. Focusing on Black erotic practices that involve dirt, mud and earth, she asked 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, was the first speaker in the fall 2021 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This talk was co-sponsored by the programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies and in American Studies.