Energy Humanities

About Energy Humanities

This CIRS podcast series is part of the Energy Humanities research initiative, which aims to generate new scholarly conversations on everyday lived experiences of energy. Together with our guests, we will explore new ways of thinking about how we understand ordinary people’s encounters with energy in various social, cultural, and political-economic forms.

Publisher

CIRS

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jun 2021

Latest episode

8 May 2022

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 May 2022

   World Energy Literature Part 2 | CIRS Energy Humanities Podcast with Stacey Balkan & Swaralipi Nandi

   In part 2 of this podcast, Firat Oruc, Georgetown University in Qatar, speaks to Stacey Balkan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, and Swaralipi Nandi is an Assistant Professor of English at Loyola College, Hyderabad, India. Stacey Balkan is Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. She is co-editor of Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State Press, 2021); and she is the author of Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India (West Virginia University Press, 2022). Stacey’s current book project is titled Black Anthropocene Vistas; and her recent work also appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Revue Études Anglaises, Energy Humanities, The Global South, Global South Studies, Mediations, and Social Text Online. Swaralipi Nandi is an Assistant Professor of English at Loyola College, Hyderabad, India. She is the co-editor of The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics, and Science Fiction (McFarland), Spectacles of Blood: A Study of Violence and Masculinity in Postcolonial Films (U Chicago/Zubaan), and Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State Press, 2021). She is currently working on extractivism and colonial commodity frontiers of India in Bengali fictions of wood, coal and indigo.

2. 

   8 May 2022

   World Energy Literature Part 1 | CIRS Energy Humanities Podcast with Stacey Balkan

   In part 1 of this episode on World Energy Literature, Stacey Balkan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, speaks to Firat Oruc, Georgetown University in Qatar. Stacey Balkan is Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. She is co-editor of Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State Press, 2021); and she is the author of Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India (West Virginia University Press, 2022). Stacey’s current book project is titled Black Anthropocene Vistas; and her recent work also appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Revue Études Anglaises, Energy Humanities, The Global South, Global South Studies, Mediations, and Social Text Online.

3. 

   15 Nov 2021

   Representing Oil | Part I: Oil, State, and Violence in Visual Art - Representing “The Wealth of Nations” | Victor Ehikhamenor

   Part I of the conversation between Trish Kahle speaks and Victor Ehikhamenor, a Nigerian artist, photographer, and writer, about his installation The Wealth of Nations, and the practice and politics of representing oil and nation in Nigeria. Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian artist, photographer, and writer. Ehikhamenor has been prolific in producing abstract, symbolic, and politically/historically motivated works. A 2020 National Artist in Residence at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ehikhamenor is a 2016 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and has held several solo exhibitions and his work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and biennales, ranging from the 57th Venice Biennale as part of the Nigerian Pavilion (2017), to the 5th Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland (2016), the 12th Dak’art Biennale in Dakar, Senegal (2016), and the Biennale Jogja XIII, Indonesia (2015). As a writer, he has published fiction and critical essays in global academic journals, magazines, and newspapers, such as the New York Times, the BBC, CNN Online, and the Washington Post, among others. His works are housed in private and public collections around the world, including the Museum of World Art, Netherlands; the Modern Forms Collection, London; The Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection, Washington, D.C., and Access Bank Plc, Nigeria. Ehikhamenor is the founder of Angels and Muse in Lagos, Nigeria, a thought laboratory dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary African art and literature.

4. 

   15 Nov 2021

   Representing Oil | Part II: Oil, State, and Violence in Visual Art - Black Gold, Violence and Nigerian Art | Victor Ehikhamenor

   Part II of the conversation between Trish Kahle speaks and Victor Ehikhamenor, a Nigerian artist, photographer, and writer, about his installation The Wealth of Nations, and the practice and politics of representing oil and nation in Nigeria. Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian artist, photographer, and writer. Ehikhamenor has been prolific in producing abstract, symbolic, and politically/historically motivated works. A 2020 National Artist in Residence at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ehikhamenor is a 2016 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and has held several solo exhibitions and his work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and biennales, ranging from the 57th Venice Biennale as part of the Nigerian Pavilion (2017), to the 5th Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland (2016), the 12th Dak’art Biennale in Dakar, Senegal (2016), and the Biennale Jogja XIII, Indonesia (2015). As a writer, he has published fiction and critical essays in global academic journals, magazines, and newspapers, such as the New York Times, the BBC, CNN Online, and the Washington Post, among others. His works are housed in private and public collections around the world, including the Museum of World Art, Netherlands; the Modern Forms Collection, London; The Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection, Washington, D.C., and Access Bank Plc, Nigeria. Ehikhamenor is the founder of Angels and Muse in Lagos, Nigeria, a thought laboratory dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary African art and literature.

5. 

   15 Nov 2021

   Representing Oil | Part I: The Cultural Lives of Oil - Complex Ontologies | Santiago Acosta

   Part I of the conversation between Vicky Googasian and Santiago Acosta, a Postdoctoral Fellow at SUNY-Old Westbury about Venezuelan oil literature, about his work on a book project entitled, "We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom, 1973-1983." Santiago Acosta is a scholar and poet working at the intersections of literature, visual culture, and political ecology. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at SUNY-Old Westbury. His book project, "We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom, 1973-1983", examines the relationship between the visual arts, cultural institutions, and state-led ecological transformations in Venezuela during the 1970s oil boom. His poetry collection El próximo desierto (The coming desert) won the 2018 José Emilio Pacheco Literature Prize “City and Nature,” awarded by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) and the Museum of Environmental Sciences of Guadalajara University.

6. 

   15 Nov 2021

   Representing Oil | Part II: The Cultural Lives of Oil - The Darker Side of Petromodernity | Santiago Acosta

   Part I of the conversation between Vicky Googasian and Santiago Acosta, a Postdoctoral Fellow at SUNY-Old Westbury about Venezuelan oil literature, about his work on a book project entitled, "We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom, 1973-1983." Santiago Acosta is a scholar and poet working at the intersections of literature, visual culture, and political ecology. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at SUNY-Old Westbury. His book project, "We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom, 1973-1983", examines the relationship between the visual arts, cultural institutions, and state-led ecological transformations in Venezuela during the 1970s oil boom. His poetry collection El próximo desierto (The coming desert) won the 2018 José Emilio Pacheco Literature Prize “City and Nature,” awarded by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) and the Museum of Environmental Sciences of Guadalajara University.

7. 

   28 Jun 2021

   Everyday Energy | Ways of Seeing: Tracing Lived Energy in Archive, Film, and Fiction | June 2021

   In this episode, Trish Kahle, Victoria Googasian, and Firat Oruc revisit a primary source they use in their own scholarly work in the historical archive, fiction, and film through the lens of the lived experience of energy. By showcasing how different disciplines interact with texts and sources, they explore points of convergences and key interdisciplinary concepts in interpreting everyday energy.

8. 

   28 Jun 2021

   Everyday Energy | Diana J. Montaño | How Everyday People Electrified Mexico City | June 2021

   In this episode, Trish Kahle speaks with Diana Montaño, to discuss how a varied, diverse group of Mexicans made sense of a new technology—and sometimes made trouble with it. We also discuss sources and methods for conducting historical research at the level of everyday life.

9. 

   28 Jun 2021

   Everyday Energy | Anto Mohsin | Electricity and Everyday Life in Doha | June 2021

   In this episode, Firat Oruc, Assistant Professor at GUQ, speaks with Anto Mohsin, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Northwestern University in Qatar, about electrical energy in everyday urban life in Doha and its intersections with the history, cultural memory, development, and future of the city.

10. 

    28 Jun 2021

    Everyday Energy | Elizabeth Barrios | Reading for Oil | June 2021

    In this episode, Vicky Googasian speaks with Elizabeth Barrios, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Latino/a Studies at Albion College about Venezuelan oil literature, what fiction has to say about everyday energetic life, and why oil industry propaganda is fun.

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