Please join us on Thursday, March 18, 2021, from 3:30pm to 5pm Pacific, for the next meeting of the USC Environmental Humanities working group, sponsored by the Levan Institute for the Humanities. The theme for our meeting will be the energy humanities. 

Note: This meeting will be 90 minutes long, rather than our usual 60 mintues, so that Jennifer Wenzel, author of one of our readings, can join our discussion around 4:30pm PT.

We’ll be discussing the following essays and chapters, available at the links below:

• Johnson, Bob. “Energy Slaves: Carbon Technologies, Climate Change, and the Stratified History of the Fossil Economy.” American Quarterly 68, no. 4 (2016): 955–80. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/51xt0ovlf1ysorb/Johnson.EnergySlaves.pdf?dl=0

• Mitchell, Timothy. “Carbon Democracy.” Economy and Society 38, no. 3 (2009): 399–432. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/owuldg6rrdw5rer/Mitchell.Carbon%20democracy.pdf?dl=0

• Wenzel, Jennifer. The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature. New York, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2020, intro (for context) & chap. 4. Link: https://uosc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01USC_INST/mbk0s6/alma991043442098503731