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Critical Conversa tions is the in-house faculty research series organized by the UBC Dep artment of English Language and Literatures and the UBC English Graduate Student Caucus. The series aims to foster interdisciplinary d ialogue across fields and periodization between students\, faculty\, and th e larger UBC community. These events feature brief talks by speakers about their wide-ranging research expertise and interests\, focalized through a p articular critical topic.
“The Histories of Plants and Animals” is th e first event in the 2023 Critical Conversations series. In this i nstallment\, Dr. Alexander Dick\, Dr. Dallas Hunt\, and Dr. Vin Nardizzi wi ll discuss historical & literary entanglements with plant and animal interl ocutors.
The in-person venue\, Buchanan Tower Room 323\, is wheelchai r accessible. This event series is also available virtually via Zoom. Pleas e indicate your attendance preference via the RSVP form linked below.
Light refreshments will be made available for in-person attendees.
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Alexande r Dick (he/him/his) is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Romanticism and the Gold Standard : Money\, Literature\, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (Palgr ave 2013) and of many articles and chapters on literature\, political econo my\, philosophy\, and popular culture. He is currently pursuing research on the Highland Clearances and Romantic-era Scottish literary culture and on the coastal poetics of the eighteenth-century Hebrides.
Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of W apsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alber ta\, Canada. He has had creative and critical work published in the Mal ahat Review\, Arc Poetry\, Canadian Literature\, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. His teaching an d research interests include Indigenous literatures\, Indigenous theory & p olitics\, Canadian literature\, speculative fiction\, settler colonial stud ies\, and environmental justice. His children’s book\, Awâsis and the W orld-Famous Bannock\, was published through Highwater Press in 2018\, and his first collection of poetry\, CREELAND\, was published in 2 022. His co-authored book\, Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Nar ratives in the Stanley Trial\, was the recipient of the 2021 Native Am erican and Indigenous Studies Best Subsequent Book Award. Dallas' newest co llection\, Teeth\, will be published through Nightwood Editions in Spring of 2024.
Vin Nardizzi (he/him/his) teaches in Shakespeare and the Environmental Hum anities. His first book is called Wooden Os: Shakespeare's Theatres and England's Trees. His forthcoming book is called Marvellous Vegeta bles in the English Renaissance. He's starting a new project on histor ical fiction and Elizabethan-ness. Ask him about The Bisley Boy. CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage LOCATION:Buchanan Tower 323 GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://english.ubc.ca/events/event/critical-conversations-th e-histories-of-animals-and-plants/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://engl.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-10.20.33-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 DTSTART:20230312T100000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR