Jump To Seminar Schedule Abstract Building on a stimulating seminar at ACLA 2024, and amidst dramatically shifting geopolitical contexts, this seminar will probe methods of reading that illuminate and disrupt escalating climate change and ecological loss by focusing on race and racialization. A photographic series of eroding Ghanaian coastlines framed by doors conjuring the violent passage…

ABSTRACT This paper examines how the relationship between race and ecology is materialized in Rebecca Salazar’s poetry collection sulphurtongue, which takes the point of view of a second generation queer Latinx speaker who grew up in Sudbury, Ontario. I argue that sulphurtongue constructs a poetics of synaesthesia in which mundane moments of embodied noticing reveal environmental, transnational, and…

Deadline: October 2, 2025 Location: Palais des congrès de Montréal Date: February 26 – March 1, 2026 Organizers: Cheryl Lousley and Zishad Lak Abstract: Building on a stimulating seminar at ACLA 2024, and amidst dramatically shifting geopolitical contexts, this seminar will probe methods of reading that illuminate and disrupt escalating climate change and ecological loss by…

In this blog post, Zahra and David explore the complexities of interdisciplinary research within the context of the Anthropocene, drawing on their experiences in the SGSAH EARTH Scholarship Programme. They reflect on the challenges of foregrounding difference without falling into generalization, romanticisation, or appropriation. Zahra discusses shelter-making practices among the Bakhtiari people of Iran, while…