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Energy Humanities: New Directions and Critiques

Join us for an exciting day of cross-campus, interdisciplinary engagement with energy flows and transitions in literature, history, philosophy, and the arts. Speakers and registrat

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
9:30am – 4:00pm
Hanover Inn, Hayward Room
Intended Audience(s): Alumni, Faculty, Postdoc, Staff, Students-Graduate, Students-Undergraduate
Categories: Conferences
Registration required.

Amid exquisite environmental precarity, how can the critical humanities help us represent and realize the alternative energy futures? How can the humanistic disciplines help us respond to climate crisis with new ecological forms and energy systems and more sustainable practices of energy production?

The Irving Institute for Energy and Society, the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, and the Departments of Music and Environmental Studies warmly invite you to join us for an exciting day of cross-campus, interdisciplinary engagement with energy flows and transitions in literature, history, philosophy, and the arts.

The symposium, which is open to faculty and post-docs, is followed by two free, public events:
Keynote Talk by Tim Morton | 4:30 p.m. | Top of the Hop - open to all Energy Humanities Live! DJ Dance Party | 8 -11 p.m. | Top of the Hop

More details and symposium registration at https://dartgo.org/EnergyHumanities

For more information, contact:
Irving Institute for Energy and Society
irving.institute@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://irving.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=58569

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.