Extractivism: A Graduate Workshop with Carolyn Fornoff
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We are delighted to welcome professor Carolyn Fornoff for a visit to our Department, and cordially invite all graduate students at the University of Toronto to this workshop.
About the Workshop:
In this meeting, Carolyn Fornoff will lead a discussion on the emergence of extractivism as a key concept in the environmental humanities. We will review the history of extractivism in Latin America as well as various aesthetic forms of its representation. In advance of the workshop, please read Carolyn Fornoff's keyword essay "Extractivism," from the Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics.
Please RSVP by February 21st.
Attendees are welcome to stay for a light catered lunch, served at 12:00 pm (noon).
About the Presenter:
Carolyn Fornoff is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Her work examines how Mexican and Central American literature, film, and visual art respond to environmental crisis. Her first book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change, was published with Vanderbilt University Press in 2024. She has co-edited two volumes in the environmental humanities: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2021). She is currently co-chair of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession and serves on the editorial boards of Hispanic Review and ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment).