Weather Reading Group
Join us as we navigate weathers drawing on inheritances and scholarship in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, including critical geographies, anthropogenic becomings, the waters of the abyss, matters of air, the animacy of water, literary and historic stories of ocean and time, heat, speculation, repair, and abolition. Taking our readings outside and in motion, Dr. Chandra Frank and Dr. Megan Gette will host a critical soundwalk on the histories and materialities of water and infrastructure. Free and open to the public, advanced registration required.
To join the reading group, email Dr. Harshavardhan Bhat at bhathn@ucmail.uc.edu or Dr. Megan Gette at gettemj@ucmail.uc.edu. All are welcome!
Fall 2024 Schedule
Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation
Friday, October 18, 3:30pm
Taft Research Center
Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart’s Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
Friday, November 22, 3:30pm
Taft Research Center
Fathoming: h2o Critical Soundwalk
Saturday, October 26, 2–4pm
Roebling Bridge–Ohio River–Freedom Center
Register here: https://bit.ly/3Ymy0ec
Fathoming is an act of sounding depths and understanding [to grasp]. How might listening with the Ohio River and its infrastructure deepen understanding of the history of slavery, the Underground Railroad, and use of waterways as a border and violent means of control? Beginning at the Roebling Bridge (KY side), we will walk and listen together, ending at the Freedom Center. Participants will be invited to use hydrophones to listen through water and with the vibrations of infrastructure. As a tool to sound and measure water’s depths, hydrophones will allow participants to attune to the materiality and histories of water that inform a what Glissant describes as a “poetics of relation.”