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2019 Kane Lecture with Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University)

Wai Chee Dimock
March 19, 2019
4:00PM - 5:30PM
311 Denney Hall

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Add to Calendar 2019-03-19 16:00:00 2019-03-19 17:30:00 2019 Kane Lecture with Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University) Linking the hazards facing the humanities to the hazards facing the planet earth, this talk argues for a ‘weak environmentalism’ in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors.  Reading Elizabeth Bishop's ‘The Sandpiper’ along with William Blake's ‘Auguries of Innocence,’ Professor Dimock will make a case for the continuing resonance of two poems that, written before climate change was an available term, nonetheless speak to our shared vulnerabilities -- of humans and nonhumans -- in a way newly meaningful in the climate-endangered twenty-first century. 311 Denney Hall Department of English english@osu.edu America/New_York public

Linking the hazards facing the humanities to the hazards facing the planet earth, this talk argues for a ‘weak environmentalism’ in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors.  Reading Elizabeth Bishop's ‘The Sandpiper’ along with William Blake's ‘Auguries of Innocence,’ Professor Dimock will make a case for the continuing resonance of two poems that, written before climate change was an available term, nonetheless speak to our shared vulnerabilities -- of humans and nonhumans -- in a way newly meaningful in the climate-endangered twenty-first century.