Two distinguished writers at the forefront of contemporary literary practice will explore the role of storytelling in the Anthropocene, a proposed new geologic era reflecting the impact of humans on the planet, during an upcoming public lecture.<\/p>\n
\u201cArchived Rivers and Political Forests: Literary Interventions in the Anthropocene\u201d takes place at Brock\u2019s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) on Thursday, Feb. 15.<\/p>\n
Organized by Brock English Professor Adam Dickinson, the free event is part of the Marilyn Rose Lecture series<\/a>, an ongoing research colloquia series launched in 2017 to honour the legacy of Marilyn Rose, a distinguished Professor of English Language and Literature and founding Dean of Brock\u2019s Faculty of Graduate Studies who passed away in 2015.<\/p>\n The lecture will welcome Julia Fiedorczuk, a Professor of American Literature at the University of Warsaw, scholar of ecocriticism and award-winning author, and celebrated Canadian poet Lisa Robertson, Governor General\u2019s Award nominee and 2014 Bain-Swiggett Lecturer in Poetry at Princeton University.<\/p>\n Their work offers provocative insight into ongoing conversations about how stories are told in the Anthropocene by examining various practices of literary production.<\/p>\n Dickinson said the Anthropocene is a concept of increasing interest for those in a range of academic fields who are curious to learn what the Anthropocene might reveal about the relationships of humans and non-humans of the past, present and future.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat new modes of philosophical thinking, creative writing and artistic creation can be developed to explore and provoke a larger public and political response to the biological, geological and cultural \u201cwriting\u201d of the Anthropocene?\u201d Dickinson said.<\/p>\n The talk builds on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant, funded by the Government of Canada, that Dickinson is part of led by Christine Daigle, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Brock\u2019s Posthumanism Research Institute, along with Brock Earth Sciences Professor and Anthropocene expert Francine McCarthy.<\/p>\n