Event Description
Contemporary ecocritics often assume that ecosystemic philosophy originated in the post-Industrial Age. Part of the reason for that assumption is that the vocabulary we now recognize as "ecocritical" simply didn't exist as such in the Early Modern and pre-modern world. But that doesn't mean that ecosystemic thought wasn't happening. By zeroing in on the word "waste," which did an enormous amount of ecophilosophical heavy lifting for medieval English people, this talk will explore ideas about ecosystemic precarity, intersubjective vulnerability, and climate collapse in the European Middle Ages.
Event Speaker
Eleanor B Johnson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required for in-person or online attendencee. For more information, please visit the event webpage or email [email protected].
Hosted by the Medieval and Renaissance Center at New York University.
