IHC Virtual Talk: Caroline Levine

What do scholars of literature and the arts have to offer in response to the climate crisis? In this Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) talk, Caroline Levine will consider the particular value of formalist methods in the humanities in this moment of rapid and destabilizing change, as we rebuild and remake our social world. Levine will analyze sustainability in formal terms and focus specifically on the forms of sustainable infrastructure in contemporary cities, including Houston, Barcelona, and the Brazilian cities of Belo Horizonte and Curitiba.

Caroline Levine is the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities at Cornell University. She is the author of three books, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt, Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts, and Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network. She is currently the nineteenth-century editor for the Norton Anthology of World Literature and has written on topics ranging from formalist theory to Victorian poetry and from television serials to academic freedom.

This talk is a keynote of the Association for Literary Urban Studies’ 2022 Conference, “Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal.”

Sponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series

Live closed-captioning will be provided.

Free to attend; visit the IHC page for more information and to register for the Zoom attendance link: bit.ly/Levine-IHC