Eco-Criticism in Poetry: Engaging Climate Changes
Nov 24, 2021, 6:30 pm
Universität Hamburg, lecture hall J, main building, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg
The climate crisis has reached the lyric: “poetry in the Anthropocene” articulates criticism and concerns about the future of the planet by poetic means. Poets are thematizing humankind’s destruction of natural environments and the resulting calamities. They present apocalyptic scenarios of advancing climate change that culminate in dystopic images of the “post-human” era: a world beyond humankind or even beyond life at all.
Due to its experimental character, poetry has the ability not only to mourn the end of planet Earth as we used to know it but also to make it tangible – for instance by marking absence and emptiness, or by taking a non-human perspective, which can increasingly be found in poetry and performance. But there is also a revealing tension between contemporary ecocritical poetry and one of the most influential poetic genres: Romantic nature poetry and the contemplative, affirmative, and almost spiritual relationship that it describes between the subject and nature.
This event will be held in German and English (with translations).
With
Johannes Heldén (visual artist, poet, and musician; Stockholm/SE)
Prof. Hans Kristian Rustad (literary scholar; Oslo/NO)
Antje Schmidt, M. Ed. (literary scholar; Hamburg)
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Claudia Benthien (Principal Investigator, ERC project; Hamburg)
Registration information for the on-site event:
Free Entry.
The event at Universität Hamburg will take place according to the “2G” access model. This means that only people who can provide proof of vaccination or recovery together with an official passport will be permitted to attend. It is mandatory that each participant brings both documents to the Warburg-Haus and presents them at the entrance.
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Registration information for the live stream:
The event will be streamed live on November 24, 2021. You will receive the entry information for your free online access on the day before.
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