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.

Energy Humanities
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Podcast Overview
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.
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May 8, 2022
World Energy Literature Part 2 | CIRS Energy Humanities Podcast with Stacey Balkan & Swaralipi Nandi
<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

May 8, 2022
World Energy Literature Part 1 | CIRS Energy Humanities Podcast with Stacey Balkan
<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

November 15, 2021
Representing Oil | Part I: Oil, State, and Violence in Visual Art - Representing “The Wealth of Nations” | Victor Ehikhamenor
<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>
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