Conférence « Climate : Epistles »
Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences « L’art et la Durabilité » et la venue de Julie Caar, le laboratoire ILLE organise deux évènements :
- Le jeudi 22 janvier à partir de 14h30, en salle Gandjavi, venez assister à la conférence « Climate : Epistles ».
- Le vendredi 23 janvier de 13h30 à 15h30, en salle 201, participez à l’atelier d’écriture du vendredi, avec le département d’anglais, qui sera suivi d’une lecture-discussion du livre The Garden par Julie Carr en salle 201.
In 2018, in the context of accelerating climate disasters: hurricanes—fires, floods, droughts, freezes—and rising American fascism, Julie Carr and Lisa Olstein set out to write a series of epistolary essays. The « climate » of American violence and both global and hyperlocal environmental crises surrounds this effort to find and sustain a different kind of present moment. In what philosopher-physicist Karen River Barad calls the « thick-now of the present, » which is at once a rupture and an intra-active continuity, friendship as kinship, as co-labor, becomes a forum for grieving as the very condition for living in our time. In this talk Julie Carr will read from and discuss the book Climate alongside some of the epistolary exchanges that sustained and inspired it: the letters of Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, of Etel Adnan to Fawwaz Traboulsi, and of Martin Land and Jonathan Boyarin.