Environmental Humanities in Common

 

What would a common law with nature look like? This problem and possibility is the focus of our second annual UofA-ASU environmental humanities and arts gathering. 

 

We will frame the problem of the commons with visiting artist Jonathon Keats and his Common Law of Nature project on exhibit at Biosphere2. Afternoon sessions discuss “reading” nature, commonality and “commons.” Our panel discussion will feature responses by artists, writers, and scientists, including Ron Broglio, author of Animal Revolution, and Erika Lynne Hanson, an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes “Future Ecologies” and “Life on Mars" and Aresta Tsosie-Paddock, Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, whose research areas include displacement and dispossession of cultural heritage, Navajo language, human rights practices, tribal government, and Federal Indian law and policy. 

 

We invite participants and perspectives from all disciplines, and look forward to learning more about how these themes intersect with your own work!

 

 

10:30am – 12:00pm — Jonathon Keats’ presentation on The Common Law of Nature at the University of Arizona Poetry Center

12:30pm – 1:45pm — Catered lunch (please RSVP on registration form)*

1:45pm – 2:45pm — Panel discussion/respondents to Common Law Project*

3:00pm – 4:30pm — Breakout discussion session*

4:30pm – 5:00pm — Viewing of the Library of the More-than-Humane and Common Law Project installation; closing remarks and reflection*

Get-together at Arias/Cushman house following event

 

*Taking place at the Library on Tumamoc Hill