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“Environmental Memory and Planetary Survival” – Lecture by Professor Lawrence Buell

11/15/2007 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The ACGCC will co-sponsor a lecture by Professor Lawrence Buell of Harvard University, author of several significant studies and this year's Jay Hubbell Award winner. Professor Buell's lecture is part of a year-long series of events sponsored by the ACGCC and intended to promote UCSB's initiative to build upon its already strong programs in Environmental Studies by focusing on how the Humanities contribute to environmental values and activism....more The Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media is a co-sponsor for this event.

Long considered one of the founders of environmental criticism, or the study of literature and the environment, Professor Buell will share his most recent work with us, which treats the intersections of global and environmental studies. Some of the studies include The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, And The Formation Of American Culture(1995), Writing For An Endangered World: Literature, Culture And Environment In The United States And Beyond (2001), Emerson (2003), And The Future Of Environmental Criticism (2005). Writing For An Endangered World won the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations' Cawelti Prize for the best book of 2001 in the field of American Cultural Studies; Emerson won the 2003 Warren-Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism. (The "Jay Hubbell Award" is given by the American Literature Group of the MLA for lifetime achievement in American literature.) * * *

Location McCune Room, HSSB Contact Stephanie LeMenager ACGCC Events      Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media