22 January 2025, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
About the event:
The removal and production of natural resources has long shaped the world on a local, national, and global scale. How might an attention to images help us understand the fraught history of extraction? How might these histories, in turn, help us confront the challenges caused by processes that continue to scar earth, pollute water, and imperil our health? The panel will comprise two experts in the imagery of extraction, Dr. Siobhan Angus (Carleton) and Dr. Jarrod Hore (University of New South Wales), in conversation with Andrew Seaton (UCL).
Event information via this website.
About the Speakers:
Siobhan Angus
Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Carleton University
Siobhan Angus works at the intersections of art history, media studies, and the environmental humanities. She is an assistant professor of media studies at Carleton University. She is the author of Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography, (Duke University Press 2024) and her research has been published in Environmental Humanities, Capitalism and the Camera (Verso, 2021) and October.
You can learn more about Camera Geologica here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/camera-geologica
Jarrod Hore
Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program at University of New South Wales, Sydney
Jarrod Hore is an environmental historian of settler colonial landscapes, nature writing, and geology, and is currently Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program, University of New South Wales, Sydney. His work on earthquake geology, wilderness photography, early environmentalism, and the logistics of the natural history trade has been published in the Pacific Historical Review, Australian Historical Studies and the Journal of World History. His award-winning first book, Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism was published by University of California Press in 2022.
You can learn more about Visions of Nature here: www.ucpress.edu/books/visions-of-nature/paper
