This Reading Group is open to all researchers (specifically Master’s students, PhDs, and Postdocs) interested in the burgeoning field of the Environmental Humanities. We will meet online fortnightly during the summer term (please see dates below), and venture into reading Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation(1990, transl. 1997). Long recognized as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, Glissant has so far been read mostly in cultural studies, yet his work is increasingly gaining relevance in the Environmental Humanities. Considering the entanglements between cultural and environmental studies, we will discuss and analyse the text’s significance for our contemporary moment.
The format of this group follows the principles of slow, emergent, and collective scholarship. While gathered online, we will silently read a section of the text, and then discuss it together. This means that no prior preparation is necessary, nor is registration. It doesn’t matter if you show up only once and not from the start; if you’re interested, just come along!
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