Symposium: Anthropocene Narratives [31 October, Melbourne]

11 Oct Symposium: Anthropocene Narratives [31 October, Melbourne]

Anthropocene Narratives: One-day Symposium in Environmental Humanities

Friday, October 31st, 9:15 AM-5 PM AEDT
Australian Catholic University (Melbourne)

While the Anthropocene as a geological epoch remains a subject of scientific debate, the term has gained enormous currency in environmental studies, the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities. As an idea that provokes us to think about the role of the human in endangering earth’s habitability, the Anthropocene has generated a vast body of interdisciplinary scholarship. Crucial to the field has been the rise of narratives, fictional and non-fictional, that capture the aesthetic, ethical, legal and social implications of contending with humankind’s monumental transformation of the earth system since the rise of the industrial era.

This one-day symposium aims to bring into conversation scholars from Europe and Australia who reflect on questions of resilience, care, inhumanity, and oceanic upheaval. The symposium will serve as a forum to reflect on narrative forms that shape our awareness of planetary and environmental catastrophes as they unfold around us.

Chair: Debjani Ganguly (ACU, University of Virginia)
Speakers: Marco Caracciolo (Ghent), Jordi Serrano-Muñoz (Ghent), Killian Quigley (ACU), Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe)

Detailed schedule and registration portal: https://events.humanitix.com/anthropocene-narratives

Please contact debjani.ganguly@acu.edu.au or killian.quigley@acu.edu.au with any questions.

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Image credit: still from the Australian artist Liam Young’s digital short film Planet City: A City for 10 Billion People (2021)