I will be speaking at the University of Victoria on Thursday, the 15th of November, and am very much looking forward to it! Here is the formal announcement:
Listening to the Land as though Our Lives Depend on It
Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University)
Thursday, November 15, 5:00-6:20 p.m.
CLEARIHUE A207, University of Victoria
This talk marks the beginning of a literary non-fiction project that lies at the intersections of literary studies, ecocriticism, and Indigenous studies. It functions, first, as an interrogation of the anthropocentrism that has resided at the centre of much of my work to date. This interrogation takes the question of listening to the landscape – and especially that of my family’s home in northern Alberta’s Athabasca watershed – as a point of departure. I do so in order to argue that, indeed, our lives do depend on developing the ability to listen to the land, in all possible senses of that expression.
