Alternative Ecological Futures
| Dates: | 18 March 2026 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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Please join us for this exciting EACW research seminar event, taking place on Wednesday 18 March, from 4–5 pm, in Sam Alex A113.
The session will feature talks by Professor Allison Carruth (Princeton), author of Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (University of Chicago Press, 2025), and Dr Robert Spencer (EACW).
About the speaker
Allison Carruth is Professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. She is the cofounder and faculty director of Blue Lab, an environmental media, art, and research group at Princeton. Since 2017, she has produced original environmental documentaries and multimedia story series in collaboration with filmmakers, journalists, artists, and others. She is the author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food and coauthor (with Amy L. Tigner) of Literature and Food Studies.
Carruth’s Novel Ecologies shows how the tech industry has taken up the wilderness mythologies that shaped one strain of American environmentalism over the last century. Calling this twenty-first-century environmental imagination Nature Remade, Carruth describes a distinctly West Coast framework that is at once nostalgic and futuristic. Through three case studies—synthetic wildlife, the digital cloud, and space colonization—the book shows Nature Remade to be a quasi-religious belief in venture capitalism and big tech, imagining a future in which species, ecosystems, and entire planets are regenerated and re-created through engineering.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo239362741.html
Travel and Contact Information
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A113
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
