Animal Studies & Environmental Humanities

 Spring 2023

Jointly convened meetings for the QSIRG and Animal Studies & Environmental Humanities Research Group

QSIRG LUNCHTIME MEETING 1

Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library, Suite 100

February 17 (Friday), 12:30 to 1:45

  • Morton, Timothy. 2010. Guest Column: Queer Ecology. PMLA 125(2):273-282
  • See, Sam. 2020. Excerpts from Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies. Fordham University Press (available as an eBook through the UM library’s website)
  • Mortimer-Sandilands,  Catroina. 2010. “Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies.” In Queer Ecologies, ed.  by C. Mortimer-Sandilands and B. Erickson, pp. 331-58. Indiana University Press
  • Seymour, Nicole. 2020. “Good Animals.” In Transecology, ed. by D. Vakoch. Routledge

QSIRG LUNCHTIME MEETING 2

Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library, Suite 100

April 12 (Wednesday), 12:30 TO 1:45

  • Davis, Heather. 2022. “Queer Kin” in Plastic Matter. Duke University Press
  • Excerpts from Ecologies of Gender, edited by Susanne Lettow and Sabine Nessel (2022, Routledge); Nicole Seymour ("Plastic Ambivalence,” pp. 71-88) and Sven Bergmann (“Speculative Ecologies: Salmon Farming and Marine Microplastics as Slow Disasters,” pp. 206-226)
  • Seymour, Nicole. 2022. Excerpts from Glitter. Bloomsbury Academic.

 Fall 2022

Location note: All Fall 2022 events will take place on Zoom.

Friday, September 30, 12:00 pm

Reading to be discussed: Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse

Friday, November 4, 12:00 pm

Reading to be discussed: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals 

Friday, December 9, 12:00 pm

Readings TBD

Nathan Timpano

Associate Professor of Art History
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Jessica Rosenberg

Associate Professor of English
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