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Description: Transimperial, transhistorical and transregional natures from the 17th to the 21st century The 'Empire and Ecologies' project began in July 2021 w ...
Transimperial, transhistorical and transregional natures from the 17th to the 21st century The 'Empire and Ecologies' project began in July 2021 with an international, interdisciplinary online symposium entitled 'Empire and Ecologies: Transimperial, transhistorical, and transregional natures from the 17th to the 21st century'. Overall, the project explores the ecological consequences of the long histories of empire and how, in turn, empires are shaped by environments. Empire and Ecologies utilises a humanit
To investigate these questions, the symposium brought together different disciplinary perspectives — such as literary and cultural scholarship, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies, transnational studies , critical Indigenous studies, creative praxis, and the history of colonial commodities and natural resources.
The symposium took place on 1-2 July 2021. The roundtable on methodologies for studying extractivism included speakers Professor Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia), Professor Katayoun Shafiee (Warwick), Dr Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Professor Sukanya Banerjee (Berkeley), Professor Elizabeth Miller (UC Davis), Chair: Professor John Brannigan (UCD), Director of the UCD Environmental Humanities research strand: Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD).
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