As mentioned earlier, the undergraduate and graduate class in Advanced Environmental Humanities, with a focus on “Thinking Through the Present (Global, Historical) Moment,” has “gone public.” Over the past few weeks, we’ve had guests from Italy, the Netherlands, Estonia, and India join us, alongside others from North America and the twenty or so students signed up for the course.
We’re loosely following the schedule announced earlier, with some variations. Meetings are from 1:15 to 4:15 pm Eastern U.S. (New York City) time, with the first half of that dedicated to discussing readings and the second to a more open-ended discussion of projects (creative, research, and applied/community projects) and introductions to the following week’s readings and themes.
Here’s the current, revised schedule of topics:
Mar. 4 Latin American perspectives on decoloniality (readings by Walter Mignolo, Catherine Walsh, Arturo Escobar, Marisol de la Cadena)
Mar. 11 African perspectives on decoloniality (readings by Achille Mbembe and others)
Mar. 18 Black Atlantic perspectives on decoloniality (primary reading: Pauline Alexis Gumbs’s Dub: Finding Ceremony)
Mar. 25 & Apr. 1 Indigenous perspectives on decoloniality (readings by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Kyle Powys Whyte, Eve Tuck & Yang, Zoe Todd & Heather Davis)
Apr. 8 Multispecies entanglements: Methods (readings by Deborah Bird Rose & Thom Van Dooren, Donna Haraway, and others)
Apr. 15 No meeting (university respite day)
Apr. 22 Eco-Arts Exhibition (online; details to be announced)
Apr. 29 Multispecies Entanglements in Shadow Places & Sacrifice Zones (readings TBA)
May 6: Conclusions (readings TBA)
Most of the readings are available to participants ahead of time; a few are recommended for purchase. If you are interested in participating, please write to ecoculture@uvm.edu. It’s not too late to join.