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Thursday, March 6, 2025 5:30pm
About this Event
3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 97202-8199
Twenty-first-century climate change poems mourn the dying and possible death of the planet. Are there ways of thinking about climate poems as elegies for the planet that clarify their ethical purchase, elucidate their literary power, and embrace their necessity? And what are the implications of this body of poetry for conceptualizing our affective response to the climate crisis?
Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His most recent books are Poetry in a Global Age (2020), The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (2017), Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2014), and A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the American Comparative Literature Association’s Harry Levin Prize. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, he coedits The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Established on the occasion of Reed's centennial with a gift from Dan Greenberg ’62 and his wife and philanthropic partner Susan Steinhauser, the Greenberg Distinguished Scholar Program aims to bring visiting scholars to campus to support the work of students and provide faculty with the opportunity for in-depth intellectual exchange with a prominent member in their field.
Free and open to the public.