Fathoming the Deep: Slow Time and Extractive Desires - A lecture by Prof. Elizabeth Deloughrey

Drawing on Julian Charrière’s exhibition Deep End, prof. Elizabeth Deloughrey’s lecture examines the relationship between planetary water systems, climate change, environmental degradation and slow violence.
The event opens the interdisciplinary lecture series Rethinking Slow Violence: Conversations on Human Erosion, organised within the SNSF-funded project Resisting Human Erosion, led by Professor Elisa Fornalé.
The lecture will be followed by an apéro. Participation is free of charge, and online attendance via Zoom is possible.

Elizabeth Deloughrey is a professor at UCLA in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability who works in the Caribbean and Indigenous Pacific Island studies with a focus on literature, arts, and ecology. Her research contributes to the fields of feminist and postcolonial ecocriticism, critical ocean studies, island studies, demilitarization, and the environmental humanities.
She teaches a range of postcolonial and Indigenous literature courses in the English, Global Studies, and Honors Program at UCLA about imagining and representing climate change and the Anthropocene, the cultural politics of food, representations of empire and the environment, as well as courses on the oceanic imaginary in literature, film, and art.
Her research has been supported by institutions such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Munich), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the UCLA Global Studies Program, the Fulbright Program, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities.

For registration and further information, please contact Simone Ferrari (simone.ferrari@unibe.ch).