Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic

Liberal Arts Collective
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Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic

Brought to you by the Liberal Arts Collective at the Pennsylvania State University, “Unraveling the Anthropocene” brings together academics, artists, activists, and community members from around the world to discuss issues at the intersection of race, environment, and pandemic.

  1. SPECIAL EPISODE! (Co)Figurations of Care: Experience and Infrastructure in the Medical Humanities

    04/22/2022

    SPECIAL EPISODE! (Co)Figurations of Care: Experience and Infrastructure in the Medical Humanities

    A special episode featuring LAC's April 2022 roundtable event (Co)Figurations of Care: Experience and Infrastructure in the Medical Humanities, featuring Anna Ulrikke Andersen, MK Czerwiec, and Victoria Lupascu. This roundtable discussed care and its multiple and diverse configurations. Care ranges from looking after a patient, to being attuned to the needs of the self and its surroundings, to reorganizing the built medical environment. Our speakers' work reflects on the biopolitical management of health, medical spatial organization, and personal or fictional narratives of care. How do visual art, architecture, and medical technologies can produce, contest, configure and disseminate spatial and embodied forms of knowledge, and call attention to care? (Moderated by Merve Şen) More information on the event & speakers can be found on the LAC website here.

    1h 20m
  2. SPECIAL EPISODE! (Co)Figurations of Future: Ecocritical Approaches to Virtual Worlds

    04/15/2022

    SPECIAL EPISODE! (Co)Figurations of Future: Ecocritical Approaches to Virtual Worlds

    A special episode featuring LAC's March 2022 roundtable event (Co)Figurations of Experience: Ecocritical Approaches to Virtual Worlds, featuring Alenda Y. Chang, Jonathan Correa, Kathryn Hamilton (a.k.a. Sister Sylvester), and Deniz Tortum. This roundtable explored the ecocritical dimensions of digital and virtual environments. Through an interdisciplinary approach to video games, pedagogy, VR, and contemporary art, what possible future(s) are envisioned by and through the experience of virtual worlds? (Moderated by Hannah A. Matangos) More information on the event & speakers can be found on the LAC website here.

    1h 20m

  3. 11/08/2021

    The Anthropocene: From Classical Philosophy to Climate Ethics Today

    In this episode, LAC member Merve Tabur interviews Penn State professor Mark Sentesy. Sentesy introduces his research in philosophical anthropology and the Anthropocene and discusses how ancient views on human relationship to nature compare to our modern-day conceptions. Underscoring the significance of a philosophical understanding of environmental justice concerns today, Sentesy also shares his pedagogical approaches to teaching climate ethics.

    1h 1m

  4. 10/10/2021

    Beyond Dichotomies: Shaman Stories in Contemporary Literature

    In this episode, LAC member Müge Gedik interviews Dr. Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu. Dr. Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu discusses her new book project Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel: Histories of Lands, Animals, and Peoples beyond the Nature/Culture Divide on shamanism in contemporary literature, encompassing Northern Siberia, China, North America, Australia, and Turkey. She highlights the importance of kinship and forging ties with other human and more-than-human life forms as resistance to overextraction and global capitalist discourses. Lastly, we explore the current trends, studies, and communities in literature and environment and environmental humanities in Turkey.

    49 min

  5. 07/09/2021

    Multispecies Entanglement and Contagion in Ottoman Travel Writings and Miniatures

    In this episode, LAC member Merve Tabur interviews Dr. Gizem Yılmaz Karahan. Dr. Yılmaz Karahan discusses her research on written and visual representations of disease and contagion in the writings of the Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi (1611-1682) and in the medical illustrations of an Ottoman surgeon, Şerafeddin Sabuncuğlu (1385-1468). Putting ancient Greek, Arab, and Ottoman Turkish philosophies and scientific discourses in conversation with contemporary discussions on posthumanism and material ecocriticism, Dr. Yılmaz Karahan underlines the significance of historical and cross-cultural analyses in addressing ecological and public health issues today.

    1h 3m

  6. 07/01/2021

    Artist Residencies for International Social Change

    LAC member Michelle McGowan interviews Francisco Guevara, a visual artist and curator. Guevara specializes in Levinasian ethics applied to the design of cross-cultural artistic projects as well as the analysis of performativity in contemporary art practices. He has over 20 years of experience designing, curating, managing arts projects, and promoting social change. Guevara is co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Arquetopia, a non-profit foundation and transnational artist residency program promoting development and social transformation through educational, artistic, and cultural programming.

    36 min

  7. 06/17/2021

    Unraveling the Anthropocene Roundtable - Dr. Ranco, Anderson-Barbata, and Leyam-Fernández

    This episode is a recording of the Unraveling the Anthropocene roundtable, our keynote event which was held on March 29 of 2021, in the context of the Comparative literature luncheon speaker series. Merve Tabur (LAC vice president) introduced the speakers and served as moderator. The event gathered over 50 attendees from various departments, who participated in an enriching Q&A session. The Q&A session was not recorded. During the event, speakers shared audiovisual materials with the audience. Visit our website to see some of those materials.

    52 min

  8. 06/14/2021

    Intergenerational Memory: Revival of Trauma, Dersim Massacre, COVID-19 Pandemic

    In this episode, LAC member Müge Gedik interviews Berfin Çiçek, a graduate student in Cultural Studies at Sabancı University in Turkey. They discuss Berfin’s project on the revival of trauma and intergenerational memory catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Berfin takes the testimony of a member from the descendent generation of Dersim massacre victims from Turkey, his grandfather, into the focus of her project while exploring how traumatic experiences trigger each other and create an intergenerational memory in general, and more specifically, during the COVID-19 quarantine. Berfin considers testimonials crucial evidence and attributes to established theories, mostly by Cathy Caruth and Dori Laub.

    29 min
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Brought to you by the Liberal Arts Collective at the Pennsylvania State University, “Unraveling the Anthropocene” brings together academics, artists, activists, and community members from around the world to discuss issues at the intersection of race, environment, and pandemic.

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