Of potential interest to listserv members in the New York area. See attached schedule.
ONE-DAY COLLOQUIUM
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011
“Commons and Collectivities: Renaissance Political Ecologies”
Columbia University
523 Butler Library
All welcome
Speakers: Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse), Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins),
Jonathan Gil Harris (George Washington), Bryan Lowrance (Columbia),
Steve Mentz (St. John’s), Henry S. Turner (Rutgers)
Online library exhibit: “Political Ecologies in the Renaissance,” curated by Cym Ramirez and
Ashley Streeter:
https://ldpd.lamp.columbia.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/political_ecologies Organized by Bryan Lowrance and Emily Shortslef
In recent years, early modernists have shown an increased interest in politics and the political, from Cambridge School-inspired investigations of the history of political thought to more theoretical engagements with political theology, bio-politics, and the various rhizomatic strands of posthumanism. At the same time, early modern studies has been infused by an intensive and extensive concern with matters ecological and environmental, with a surge of scholarly work investigating how the literary and cultural production of early modern England can be read as representing and intervening in pressing problems of human/environment interaction and relation. This conference seeks to gather together work from both of these disciplinary vectors, and to provide a forum for individual investigations as well as a mutual conversation about some of the broader political, theoretical, and methodological motives of the present political and ecological turns.
features 16th and 17th century items (with the main barycenter on the second half of the 17th century):
Political Ecologies": I'll point to this posting here from the "Periodisations, borders"-thread over in the section dedicated to "Miscellaneous" stuff.