Reading Group
November 15, 2016 at 5:30 - 7:00 PM, Royce 334C
"Geopolitics and the Ideologies of Land and Sea," with Prof. John Agnew (Department of Geography, UCLA)
Readings:
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John Agnew: "US Hegemony and the Limits to Territorial Geopolitics in the Twentieth Century," Storia del pensiero politico 3/2015, 407-426. Full Text
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Christopher L. Connery: "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements," Boundary 2. Summer 2001 28(2): 173-201. Full Text
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Giorgi Tavadze: "Land and Sea: Carl Schmitt's Philosophical Geography," European Scientific Journal July 2013 /special/ edition. Full Text
November 22, 2016 at 5:30 - 7:00 PM, Royce 334C
"The Challenges of the Anthropocene: Italy and Environmental Humanities" with Prof. Ursula K. Heise (Department of English, UCLA)
Readings:
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S. Iovino: Introduction in Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation (Bloomsbury, 2016). Full Text
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S. Iovino & S. Opperman: "Introduction: The Environmental Humanities and the Challenges of the Anthropocene" in Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. Full Text
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Heise, Ursula K. Introduction and Ch. 6, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species. 2016. Full Text