Loras College recently issued the following announcement.
Themes Crucial to the Climate Crisis
February 10 at 7 p.m.
Miller Academic Resource Center
Professor of English Andrew Auge will give a talk on his new book “Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis “ on February 10 at 7 pm on the third floor of the Miller Academic Resource Center on the Loras College campus.
The book addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late-twentieth and twenty-first century Irish poetry. Adopting a variety of ecotheoretical approaches, the essays in this book address several interrelated themes crucial to the climate crisis: the way in which the scalar scope of climate change interweaves local and global, distant past and imminent future; the critical importance of acknowledging the complex kinship of the human and nonhuman; and the necessity of warning against the devastating environmental losses to come while mourning those that have already occurred.
Ultimately, by envisioning new ways of existing on an earth that humans no longer dominate, this book engages in what the philosopher Jonathan Lear refers to as a process of ‘radical anticipation.’
This event is open to the public and there is no charge to attend. Please plan to wear a surgical grade face covering as masks are required in all campus buildings.
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