ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Rutgers Eco Conference Details

Monday, February 7, 2011

Rutgers Eco Conference Details

“Cross-Cultural Ecocriticism(s): Waves and Undertows”
February 25th, 2011
9:00 am. - 5:00 pm.
Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Do current environmental crises, politics, and studies compel literary and cultural studies to revisit their usual perspectives on nature? Ecocriticism names the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the interactions between humans and physical environments and non-human species in literature and other media. The field calls too for expanding our understanding of the relationship between “texts” and the social/physical networks in which they are inserted. Ecocriticism, however, has been accused of a pronounced tendency towards solipsism and even ethnocentrism in its primary focus on English and American national literary traditions and ecologies.

This conference will focus on leading research in ecocriticism addressing national, ethnic, class, gender, and disciplinary boundaries still permeating this field. Four distinguished scholars who in recent times have opened or advanced new directions will share their research related to the rise of postcolonial ecocriticism, the impact of new varieties of ecofeminisms and popular environmentalisms, the contributions and challenges posed by another emergent field: critical animal studies, and the rethinking of environmental aesthetics and ecological thought in/for the Humanities.

* Rob Nixon. Author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (forthcoming Harvard UP, 2011),
* Catriona Sandilands. Editor (with Bruce Erickson) of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics and Desire (Indiana UP, 2010).
* Timothy Morton. Author of Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Harvard UP, 2007), and The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, 2010).
* Ursula Heise. Author of Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford UP, 2008).

For the detailed program of this event, and information on other sponsors, please see the attached flyer.

Directions to Alexander Library, and Rutgers College Ave. Campus

Contact:
Jorge Marcone: jmarcone@rci.rutgers.edu
Administrative Assistant: Marilyn Tankiewicz: MARILYN.TANKIEWICZ@rutgers.edu

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Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

“Outstanding.”
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
—Kasino A4

“It isn’t [nature] itself that needs trashing — we’re doing a fine job of that already; it’s our way of thinking about it that needs to be structurally realigned ... it's an important book that, in a scant 205 pages of main text ... frames a debate that no doubt will be carried on for years to come.”
—Vince Carducci, Pop Matters

“He practices what he theorizes: nothing is wasted in his argumentation.”
—Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Synthesis

“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”
—Vince Carducci

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Monday, February 7, 2011

Rutgers Eco Conference Details

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