Lectures

Imagining Deep Time in the Present

Join us on Wednesday 22 January in 250 KMBL at 5pm for a lecture from special guest Dr. Jennifer Fay (Vanderbilt University). The title of her lecture will be “Imagining Deep History in the Present.” Dr. Fay is the director of Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University as well as the author of the award winning book Inhospitable Nature: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (Oxford UP 2018). Her research and teaching interests are broad and include transatlantic film and media theory, environmental criticism, including critical Anthropocene studies, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics.