Bibliographies

On March 1, the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present the third in their Cultures and Knowledge Workshop series for the Winter Term. This workshop, titled "Working on a Deadline: Climate Emergency," will be presented by Prof. Jo Guldi.

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Scientists and UN advisory bodies have identified our lives as a historical moment of crisis, writ in terms of a limited opportunity for the planet’s inhabitants to decide to keep carbon in the ground. In the university, scholars have proposed a variety of indirect supports to the problem of adjustment, but little environmental scholarship from the humanities and social sciences embodies a truly pragmatic response....

On February 8, the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present the first in their Cultures and Knowledge Workshop series of webinars. This Monday's workshop, titled "Scenario and Security in Climate Change Documentary," will be presented by Dr. Thomas Pringle, a media theorist drawing on documentary studies, environmental sociology, and environmental and computer history.

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Below is a list of further reading on the topic of the workshop, compiled by Dr. Pringle:

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the...

As the novel developed into a mature genre, it had to distinguish itself from these similar-looking books and become what we now call "literature." Literary scholars have explained the rise of the Anglophone novel using a range of tools, from Ian Watt’s theories to James Watt’s inventions. Contrary to established narratives, When Novels Were Books reveals that the genre beloved of so many readers today was not born secular, national, middle-class, or female. For the first three centuries of their history, novels came into readers’ hands primarily as printed sheets ordered into a codex bound along one edge between boards or paper wrappers....

If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston's Mosses and Lichens attend to what accretes over time, as well as to what erodes. They often take place in the middle of life's journey, at the edge of the woods, at the boundary between human community and wild spaces. Following Ovid, they are poems of subtle transformation and transfer. They draw on early blues and rivers, on ironies and uncertainties, guided by enigmatic signals: "an orange blaze that marks no trail." From image to image, they render fleeting experiences with etched precision. As Ange Mlinko has observed of Johnston's work, "Each poem holds in balance a lapidary concision and utter lushness of vowel-work," forming a distinctive music. Devin Johnston will read from Mosses and Lichens, with poet Susan Kinsolving, ...