Please join us for the next meeting of the Environmental Humanities working group, supported by the Levan Institute for the Humanities, on Friday, February 25, 2022, from 2pm to 3pm Pacific.

The theme for our meeting will be Extinction and Disappearance, with reaadings chosen by Pam Perrimon, USC Annenberg.

Please read the following pieces, available through USC Libraries or directly online, before our meeting.

Thom van Dooren, & Deborah B. Rose. (2017). Keeping faith with the dead: Mourning and de-extinction. Australian Zoologist, 38(3), 375–378. https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.048

Parreñas, J. (2018). Decolonizing extinction : the work of care in orangutan rehabilitation. Duke University Press.
** INTRODUCTION ONLY: p. 1-30
https://uosc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01USC_INST/hs9vaa/alma991043265951303731

Berland, J. (2019). Virtual Menageries: Animals As Mediators in Network Cultures. MIT Press. https://uosc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01USC_INST/273cgt/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9780262352017
**ONLY Ch 7 “That Old Familiar Tweet Tweet Tweet” (p 175-200)

These optional readings expand on themes in the readings above: 
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49345912
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/10/climate-box-australia/
- https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/us-fish-and-wildlife-service-proposes-delisting-23-species-endangered-species-act-due