Rice University English Symposium
September 13-14, 2013
Keynote Speakers
- Claire Colebrook, Penn State University
- Timothy Morton, Rice University
The 2013 English Symposium at Rice University invites responses to the ecological and nonhuman turns in the humanities. These turns are undoubtedly responses to environmental crises, food shortages, global warming, factory farming, and species extinction, but this symposium is also interested in discussing the emergence of nonhumans, such as matter, objects, animals, systems, technology, and media, in our critical conversations surrounding these problems.
While the humanities have an opportunity to challenge the problems and solutions put forth by scientific discourses, the Anthropocene, the post-Natural, and the Posthuman come to challenge humanism. What are humanities scholars able to contribute to the conversations concerning ecology and nonhumans?
Papers can address these topics across a variety of periods, genres, disciplines, and theoretical frames, such as:
| Affect Theory
Biopolitics Capitalism and Political Economy Critical Animal Studies Critical Race Studies Cybernetics and Technology Disability Studies Environmental Activism Eugenics Food studies Gender and Sexuality Studies Geopolitics Green Capitalism History of Science |
Imperialisms Medicine and Disease
New Materialism New Media Object Oriented Ontology Population Studies Postcolonialism Posthumanism Psychoanalysis Reproduction Settlement Studies Social Movements Sustainability Systems Theory |
ISEE - International Society for Environmental Ethics 