October 5, 2021 Vol 15
Welcome to The Understory, PPEH's bi-weekly environmental humanities digest! In a world of continued remote engagement, we're growing a digital community space to feature work in EH, share information, and most importantly, to expand conversation in all areas of the environmental humanities. Please feel welcome to contribute your events, related work, and recommendations by emailing Angela at faranda@sas.upenn.edu!
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Thanks to a PPEH Travel Fellowship, I was able to participate in the Penn in Berlin and Rotterdam Program during the summer of 2018. My travels with PIBR inspired me to return to Germany to learn the language and research the migratory patterns resulting from global climate displacement. Please reach out if you are a PPEH community member based in Deutschland! I can be contacted at lcorlett@sas.upenn.edu.
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Wednesday, 10/27 6:00 PM ET on YouTube and in the Class of 1942 Garden Watch here
JULIAN TALAMANTEZ BROLASKI is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books 2017), Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), as well the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellowship. Julian is also the lead singer and songwriter for Juan & the Pines, whose albums include Glittering Forest (2019) and Saddest Songs (forthcoming 2021). Julian’s poetry was recently included in When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat 2020). Julian lives in Chumash territory in Goleta, California.
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Thursday, October 7, 5:30pm est |
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Alien Justice with Anindita Banerjee
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With a billionaires’ space race underway against the backdrop of a literally burning planet ravaged by a pandemic, it is impossible to extricate science fiction’s long history of imagining outer space and its hypothetical forms of life from the imperial extractive logic of death on planet earth.
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This talk explores an altogether different genealogy of alien bodies, languages, and ecologies, one that offers templates of justice impossible to conceive within the confines of consensual reality and its attendant assumptions of absolute continuity and eternal generation.
This event is presented by Theorizing, the colloquium series of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and co-sponsored by Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. RSVP here!
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I have sensed climate change most recently through wildfires. I can see them creeping up around Eugene, making the sun a bright, vampire red. I can hear the way the news and the community talks about the fires. Their discussions wrought with fear and helplessness. I can feel the ash on my skin on especially bad days. The heat makes my arms sticky, and they cover with dark flakes. I can taste the air that I breathe, and it tastes like heat and smoke. I can smell the fires nearby, creeping closer and closer to me. It’s only a matter of time.
Read the full story at my-climate-story.org!
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Saturday-Sunday October 16-17, 2021, 9:00am - 2:00pm
For 20 years, the Philadelphia Writing Project has convened A Celebration of Writing and Literacy, an annual conference presented by and for Philadelphia educators. Join local educators online for two days of learning, reflection, and joy as we share promising practices and resources for supporting writing and literacy among young people!
This year's conference theme is “Making Stories Visible: A Celebration of Writing and Literacy.” The conference is co-hosted by the Philadelphia Writing Project, the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia (TIP), Penn GSE, and the Penn Museum. Register here!
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One of the enduring legacies of the sudden emergence of pathogenic viruses (Hanta, Marburg, Ebola, and HIV) in the late twentieth century is the ecological orientation toward global pandemics. These periodic non-linear crisis-events appear unavoidable because of unabated anthropogenic change—everything from continuing habitat fragmentation (e.g. deforestation) to human practices (industrial agriculture to illegal wildlife trading). We know that 60.3% of emerging infectious disease events are zoonotic spillovers and, among these, 71.3% originate from wildlife. In context of this environmental turn, Bishnupriya Ghosh examines epidemic media that track animal host traffic movements “in the wild” to compose a multispecies kinesthetic. Drawing on HIV epidemic media, they focus on two modalities of the multispecies kinesthetic. More info and registration here. October 20, 12 pm
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Science History Institute
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Downstream is is a new exhibition that examines more than 200 years of water analysis and water protection. See fine art, advertisements, films, posters, and photographs that captured efforts to understand our water.
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Also, visitors learn how the Institute uses objects as diverse as wooden pipes; scientific instruments; insects; and a 16-foot, 1964 model of the Delaware River basin to reveal the historical relationships between knowledge, activism, and action.
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