Events
Directions in the Energy Humanities
Location:
- FAB0.23: 1400-1600
- FAB2.32: 1600-1800
Schedule:
- Gathering: 1345-1400
- 1400-1415: Graeme Macdonald, Introductory outline of the field
- 1415-1500: Presentations by Michael Niblett, Charlotte Spear, Harry Pitt Scott
- 1500-1515: Coffee
- 1515-1600: Presentations by Caitlin Vandertop, Harry ÌÇÐÄTV, Natasha Bondre
- 1605-1650: Presentations by Nick Lawrence, Michael Gardiner, Thomas Waller
- 1700-1800: roundtable discussion
- 1800: Wine and poetry reading by Jonathan Skinner
Presenters:
- Natasha Bondre, ‘Reading Emperor Oil in the Expanded Caribbean: Petroleum, Ecology and Caribbean Literature in the 20th and 21st centuries’
- Michael Gardiner, ‘Notes on the Anglosphere and the Anthropocene’
- Nick Lawrence, ‘Work and Energy in the Anthropocene’
- Michael Niblett, ‘Extractive Imperialism in the Caribbean and Latin America’
- Harry Pitt Scott, ‘Energy and Finance in Transition’
- Jonathan Skinner, ‘Auger, or Deepwater Horizon 12 Years On’
- Charlotte Spear, ‘The Aesthetics of Human Rights in Central and Western African Energy Fictions’
- Caitlin Vandertop, ‘Unearthing Phosphate in the Pacific Pastoral’
- Thomas Waller, ‘The Energy Unconscious: Jameson, Braudel, and Geological Time’
- Harry ÌÇÐÄTV, ‘Notes Towards a Value Theory of Infrastructure’
Organisers:
- Graeme Macdonald, g.macdonald@warwick.ac.uk
- Harry Pitt Scott, harry.pitt-scott@warwick.ac.uk