{"id":6058,"date":"2015-11-19T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2015-11-19T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:43:12","slug":"slow-violence-environmental-activism-and-the-arts-teale-lecture-happening-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/11\/19\/slow-violence-environmental-activism-and-the-arts-teale-lecture-happening-today\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Slow Violence, Environmental Activism, and the Arts&#8217;: Teale Lecture happening today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/11\/nixon.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6059\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/11\/nixon.gif\" alt=\"nixon\" width=\"220\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>Today November 19 at 4:00pm in UConn&#8217;s Konover Auditorium,\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lib.uconn.edu\/libraries\/asc\/about\/events\/teale-lecture-series\/\">Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment<\/a>\u00a0presents<strong>\u00a0Dr. Robert Nixon<\/strong>, The Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.wisc.edu\/rdnixon\/\">Dr. Nixon<\/a> will explore the imaginative and political challenges posed by slow violence, by the incremental casualties that shadow our most pressing environmental crises. His talk will focus on activists and artists who are responding with an urgent creativity to the challenge of representing unspectacular environmental violence in a spectacle-obsessed age.<\/p>\n<p>A frequent contributor to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, Dr. Nixon&#8217;s\u00a0writing has also appeared in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>Atlantic Monthly<\/em>, <em>London Review of Books<\/em>, <em>The Nation<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, and <em>Outside<\/em>. \u00a0His book\u00a0<em>Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor<\/em>\u00a0has received several awards since its publication in 2011, including American Book Award, the 2012 Sprout prize from the International Studies Association for the best book in environmental studies, the 2012 Interdisciplinary Humanities Award for the best book to straddle disciplines in the humanities; and the 2013 biennial ASLE Award for the best book in environmental literary studies.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by UConn\u2019s Teale Series, Junior Faculty Forum of the Humanities Institute, and the Dodd Research Center, the event is free and open to the public. \u00a0<strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Since 1995, UConn\u00a0presents the award-winning Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series that brings distinguished speakers to the University to speak in public lectures on various aspects of nature and the environment. \u00a0The Lecture Series is named in honor of the Pulitzer-prize winning naturalist and author, Edwin Way Teale, whose<a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/findaids\/Teale\/MSS19810009.html\"> vast archive of literary manuscripts, letters, diaries and photographs<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0preserved and accessible at UConn&#8217;s\u00a0Archives and Special Collections.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today November 19 at 4:00pm in UConn&#8217;s Konover Auditorium,\u00a0the\u00a0Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment\u00a0presents\u00a0Dr. Robert Nixon, The Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University. 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