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Utopian and dystopian exploration of pandemics and ecological breakdown: Book launch

20 November 2024, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm

Beautiful mountain landscape from one side and city laldscape from other. Conceptual picture of relationships between cities and nature. Credit: Volff/Adobe Free Stock.

How do pandemics and ecological breakdown show us the ways humans are deeply interconnected with the more-than-human world? And what might we learn from exploring those entanglements, both within creative works and in lived reality?

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Rhiannon Firth

At this book launch, a panel of speakers will discuss a new book, Utopian and dystopian explorations of pandemics and ecological breakdown, which brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements.

Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the book looks at critical topics such as posthumanism, multispecies futures, agency, political ecology, environmental justice, and Indigenous and settler-colonial environmental relations.

The speakers will discuss how pandemics illuminate the entangled materialities and shared vulnerabilities of all living things.

Speakers

  • Heather Alberro, Lecturer in Sustainability at the University of Manchester
  • Emrah Atasoy, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Warwick
  • Nora Castle, Head of the MeTra Program at the University of Bonn
  • Rhiannon Firth, Lecturer in Sociology of Education at IOE
  • Conrad Scott, Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta

This online event will be particularly useful for environmentally-minded researchers, academics, and students across various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.


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Volff via Adobe Stock.