Course: Literature and the Sciences (Literature Across the Professions)
Title: Ecofeminist Literature in the Anthropocene
Method: Canvas Online Learning
Prepared by: Marjorie Evasco, Ph.D., De La Salle University
| MODULE | REQUIRED LITERARY TEXTS FOR STUDY | PROVOCATIONS AND ACTIVITIES | PAPER/DUE DATE |
| I: POETRY Introductory Video Lecture: “On Writing Women, The Environment, and Creation Advocacy” by Dr. Marjorie Evasco Video: Poetry Reading of Jane Hirshfield from “Ledger” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwZhqWkEEUc Windfall Poetry electronic journal http://www.hevanet.com/windfall/ Agam Ph website https://agam.ph/ ASLE website https://www.asle.org/ Changing Climates Colorado State Univ. website http://changingclimates.colostate.edu/ | “Unsaon Pagbasa ang Panganod?” [How Do You Read the Clouds?”] (from Agam: Filipino Narratives of Uncertainty and Climate Change) by Grace Monte de Ramos, https://agam.ph/2017/07/26/by-grace-monte-de-ramos/ and “Let Them Not Say” (from Ledger) by Jane Hirshfield https://poets.org/poem/let-them-not-say | Provocation: Where Are We Now?Introductory Video LectureGroup Discussion on the provocation in relation to the textsResearch and Writing of Short Paper 1Readings: *The Ethics and Aesthetics of Ecocaring: Women’s Studies, Vol. 47, #2, 2018— Editors’ Introduction https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00497878.2018.1425509 *The Third Wave of Ecocriticism: North American Reflections on the Current Phase of the Discipline by Scott Slovic https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44789037_The_Third_Wave_of_Ecocriticism_North_American_Reflections_on_the_Current_Phase_of_the_Discipline *The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and the Literary Imagination by Lawrence Buell https://www.bookdepository.com/Future-Environmental-Criticism-Lawrence-Buell/9781405124768 | Short Paper 1: The Poetics of Place in Uncertain Times/ June 25, 2020 |
| II. POETRY BBC docu on Antartica Melting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0AWsJ0cmLE Video Lecture of Vandana Shiva in the Earth at Risk Conference, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZY_XuziJfE Myrna Peña-Reyes’ column articles in Madahan,Dumaguete Metropost https://dumaguetemetropost.com/taming-the-sea-p11740-661.htm Ben Malayang III’s article “On the Policy Complexes of Dumaguete’s Rizal Boulevard Reclamation Project” in his column My Take, Dumaguete Metropost Video: Katie Jetnil-Kijiner’s Statement and Poem addressed to the UN as Representative of Civil Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc_IgE7TBSY | “Taming the Sea” (from Dumaguete Metropost) by Myrna Peña-Reyes, https://dumaguetemetropost.com/taming-the-sea-p11740-661.htm and “Utilomar” by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner https://jkijiner.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/utilomar/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5V7qSH_Ga0 | Provocation: How do we stand up together against environmental ruination?Video Lecture: Environmental Justice and Social JusticeGroup Discussion on the provocation in relation to the textsResearch and Writing of Short Paper 2Readings: *Ecofeminism by Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies *A Sense of Place, A Sense of Planet by Ursula Heise https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sense-of-place-and-sense-of-planet-9780195335644?cc=us&lang=en& *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor” by Rob Nixon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOUGOLS14gs Video: Restoration Ecology in Guam by Dr. Laurie Jeanne Hutchison-Raymundo | Short Paper 2: The Poetics of Exposé and Resistance/ August 1, 2020 |
| III. FLASH FICTION AND CREATIVE NONFICTION Video Lecture: Nature Writing, The Great Derangement and Laudato Si” by Dr. Marjorie Evasco Podcast: Susan Lara reading her flash fiction and interviewed by Dr. Padma Perez https://agam.ph/podcast-video/ Podcast: Interview with Terry Tempest Williams on Finding Beauty in a Broken World https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/terry-tempest-williams-finding-beauty-in-a-broken-world/id307934313?i=1000468712822 *Death’s Capital: Metro Manila’s Urban Poor Ecology and the Ecological Abject Aesthetic of The Nightcrawlers of Manila” by Kervin Calabias | “Enough” (from Agam: Filipino Narratives of Uncertainy and Climate Change) by Susan Lara https://soundcloud.com/agam-climate and “The Cutting Edge of Time: Erosion of Home” (from Erosion) by Terry Tempest Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn-2hAQ9buk | Provocation: How do we understand Deep time vs. Personal narrative time?Video lecture: “The Brief History of Geologic Time” and video intro to the art exhibit called “Deep TimeGroup discussion on the provocation in relation to the texts for studyResearch and writing of Short Paper #3Readings: *No Small Matter: Mushroom Clouds, Ecologies of Nothingness, and Strange Topologies of Spacetimemattering by Karen Barad https://www.academia.edu/39975279/No_Small_Matter_Mushroom_Clouds_Ecologies_of_Nothingness_and_Strange_Topologies_of_SpaceTimeMattering Video documentaries: The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxWNAM8Cso *Women and Environment: Postcolonial Ecofeminism, Activism, and Women Writing Indian Fiction in English by Gurpreet Kaur http://www.ipedr.com/vol44/007-ICSHH2012-W00008.pdf | Short Paper #3: Poetics of Deep Time and Personal Narrative and spacetimemattering/ August 15, 2020 |
| IV. CLIMATE FICTION (THE NOVEL) Video Lectures on “The Great Derangement” by Amitav Ghosh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW8n6RAAxTg Video documentary: Japan Tohoku Tsunami of 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWzdgBNfhQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvG8LGKyC24 *Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo” by Dogen Eihei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TGSTOSOvj4 *In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust “For the Time Being” by Annie Dillard | “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPeWSHdEWg | Provocation: How do we struggle with time and account for it?Video Lecture: Ruth Ozeki on Catastrophe, Thought Experiments, and Writing as Performed Philosophy”Group discussion on the epistolary form of the novel and its performance of zen philosophyResearch and Writing of Short Paper #4Readings: “Ecclesiastes” from the Old Testament of the Holy Bible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ1TpIygxvA *Time and Narrative by Paul Ricoeur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAyjToJQDVY *Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity by Tomi Suzuki https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=JUIlTzPhItgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=narrating+the+self:+fictions+of+japanese+modernity+by+Tomi+Suzuki&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0xcaL4M7rAhWOGKYKHWHwBjMQ6AEwAHoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=narrating%20the%20self%3A%20fictions%20of%20japanese%20modernity%20by%20Tomi%20Suzuki&f=false | Short Paper #4: Poetics of Time Being and Narrative/ Aug. 29, 2020 |
| V. SPECULATIVE HISTORICAL FICTION Video Lectures: Is Climate Change the End? And if so, of what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc7RNrh8i-A and Why We Should Trust Scientists By Naomi Oreskes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxyQNEVOElU | “The Collapse of Western Civilization” by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-collapse-of-western-civilization/9780231169547 | Provocation: How would the future look at us here, now, in 2020?Video lecture: On Climate Change Denial: Where Do We Go From Here? By Naomi OreskesGroup discussion on the novel’s speculative formResearch and writing of Short Paper #5Readings *The Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet by Anna Tsing et al https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BW8YmRAoW4 | Short Paper #5: Poetics of the Speculative Historical Novel/ Sept. 12, 2020 |
| VI. GUEST LECTURES Video: Reading from the Novel by Gina Apostol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoyxUuYZNKw Article: The Struggle of Macli’ing Dulag against the Chico River Dam project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1oW6nIWhc Macli-ing Dulag by Ceres Doyo https://press.up.edu.ph/project/macli-ing-dulag-kalinga-chief-defender-of-the-cordillera/ | “Insurrecto” by Gina Apostol: An Ecofeminist Reading” by Rina Garcia Chua https://www.audible.com/pd/Insurrecto-Audiobook/1684414091?ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&source_code=GO1GB13304202090MO&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkvzVieXO6wIVzauWCh2BGwRcEAAYASAAEgJQ0PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds and “Green Entanglements: Nature Conservation and Indigenous People’s Rights in the Philippines and Indonesia” by Dr. Padmapani Perez https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/15511 | Provocation: How does one become an insurrecto in our time? Provocation: How have our Indigenous People’s Environmental Rights Fared? | Conference Hosting of Garcia Guest Lecture / Sept. 12, 2020 (Host: MFA and MA students) Conference Hosting of Perez Guest Lecture/ September 19, 2020 (Host: PhD students) |
| VII. IMPORTANT RESOURCES Tedtalk Video: “The disarming case to act right now on Climate Change” by Greta Thunberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QxFM9y0tY Indonesia On Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBnbLJ5TzvE “Science and Indigenous Knowledge” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3OepeDQJwY Feeling the Heat: Thermal Imaging (Climate Change Science and Art) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrKCuCaIXM Nature and Environment NGOs in the Philippines for Advocacy: Forest Foundation Ph https://www.forestfoundation.ph/ Talarak Foundation https://talarak.org/ Agam.Ph https://agam.ph/ | |||
| VIII. FINAL PAPER Presentations And Online Submission of Final Paper | Sept. 26, 2020 | ||
| FINAL GRADE | Oct. 3, 2020 |
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