Energy Humanities
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -This CIRS podcast series is part of the Energy Humanities research initiative, which aims to generate new scholarly conversations on everyday lived experiences of energy. Together with our guests, we will explore new ways of thinking about how we understand ordinary people’s encounters with energy in various social, cultural, and political-economic forms.
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World Energy Literature Part 2 | CIRS Energy Humanities Podcast with Stacey Balkan & Swaralipi Nandi
May 08, 2022 07:43 - 33 minutes - 61.6 MBIn part 2 of this podcast, Firat Oruc, Georgetown University in Qatar, speaks to Stacey Balkan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, and Swaralipi Nandi is an Assistant Professor of English at Loyola College, Hyderabad, India. Stacey Balkan is Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. She is co-editor of Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State P...
World Energy Literature Part 1 | CIRS Energy Humanities Podcast with Stacey Balkan
May 08, 2022 07:39 - 33 minutes - 62.9 MBIn part 1 of this episode on World Energy Literature, Stacey Balkan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, speaks to Firat Oruc, Georgetown University in Qatar. Stacey Balkan is Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. She is co-editor of Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State Press, 2021); and she is the author of Rogues in the Postcolony: Nar...
Representing Oil | Part I: Oil, State, and Violence in Visual Art - Representing “The Wealth of Nations” | Victor Ehikhamenor
November 15, 2021 10:10 - 27 minutes - 51.1 MBPart I of the conversation between Trish Kahle speaks and Victor Ehikhamenor, a Nigerian artist, photographer, and writer, about his installation The Wealth of Nations, and the practice and politics of representing oil and nation in Nigeria. Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian artist, photographer, and writer. Ehikhamenor has been prolific in producing abstract, symbolic, and politically/historically motivated works. A 2020 National Artist in Residence at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, ...
Representing Oil | Part II: Oil, State, and Violence in Visual Art - Black Gold, Violence and Nigerian Art | Victor Ehikhamenor
November 15, 2021 10:10 - 16 minutes - 31 MBPart II of the conversation between Trish Kahle speaks and Victor Ehikhamenor, a Nigerian artist, photographer, and writer, about his installation The Wealth of Nations, and the practice and politics of representing oil and nation in Nigeria. Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian artist, photographer, and writer. Ehikhamenor has been prolific in producing abstract, symbolic, and politically/historically motivated works. A 2020 National Artist in Residence at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada,...
Representing Oil | Part I: The Cultural Lives of Oil - Complex Ontologies | Santiago Acosta
November 15, 2021 10:09 - 25 minutes - 47.3 MBPart I of the conversation between Vicky Googasian and Santiago Acosta, a Postdoctoral Fellow at SUNY-Old Westbury about Venezuelan oil literature, about his work on a book project entitled, "We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom, 1973-1983." Santiago Acosta is a scholar and poet working at the intersections of literature, visual culture, and political ecology. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University and is currently a Postdoctor...
Representing Oil | Part II: The Cultural Lives of Oil - The Darker Side of Petromodernity | Santiago Acosta
November 15, 2021 10:09 - 20 minutes - 37.3 MBPart I of the conversation between Vicky Googasian and Santiago Acosta, a Postdoctoral Fellow at SUNY-Old Westbury about Venezuelan oil literature, about his work on a book project entitled, "We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom, 1973-1983." Santiago Acosta is a scholar and poet working at the intersections of literature, visual culture, and political ecology. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University and is currently a Postdoctor...
Ways of Seeing: Tracing Lived Energy in Archive, Film, and Fiction | June 2021
June 28, 2021 07:35 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBIn this episode, Trish Kahle, Victoria Googasian, and Firat Oruc revisit a primary source they use in their own scholarly work in the historical archive, fiction, and film through the lens of the lived experience of energy. By showcasing how different disciplines interact with texts and sources, they explore points of convergences and key interdisciplinary concepts in interpreting everyday energy.
Everyday Energy | Ways of Seeing: Tracing Lived Energy in Archive, Film, and Fiction | June 2021
June 28, 2021 07:35 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBIn this episode, Trish Kahle, Victoria Googasian, and Firat Oruc revisit a primary source they use in their own scholarly work in the historical archive, fiction, and film through the lens of the lived experience of energy. By showcasing how different disciplines interact with texts and sources, they explore points of convergences and key interdisciplinary concepts in interpreting everyday energy.
Everyday Energy | Diana J. Montaño | How Everyday People Electrified Mexico City | June 2021
June 28, 2021 06:45 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBIn this episode, Trish Kahle speaks with Diana Montaño, to discuss how a varied, diverse group of Mexicans made sense of a new technology—and sometimes made trouble with it. We also discuss sources and methods for conducting historical research at the level of everyday life.
Diana J. Montaño | How Everyday People Electrified Mexico City | June 2021
June 28, 2021 06:45 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBIn this episode, Trish Kahle speaks with Diana Montaño, to discuss how a varied, diverse group of Mexicans made sense of a new technology—and sometimes made trouble with it. We also discuss sources and methods for conducting historical research at the level of everyday life.
Anto Mohsin | Electricity and Everyday Life in Doha | June 2021
June 28, 2021 06:45 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn this episode, Firat Oruc, Assistant Professor at GUQ, speaks with Anto Mohsin, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Northwestern University in Qatar, about electrical energy in everyday urban life in Doha and its intersections with the history, cultural memory, development, and future of the city.
Everyday Energy | Anto Mohsin | Electricity and Everyday Life in Doha | June 2021
June 28, 2021 06:45 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn this episode, Firat Oruc, Assistant Professor at GUQ, speaks with Anto Mohsin, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Northwestern University in Qatar, about electrical energy in everyday urban life in Doha and its intersections with the history, cultural memory, development, and future of the city.
Everyday Energy | Elizabeth Barrios | Reading for Oil | June 2021
June 28, 2021 06:41 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBIn this episode, Vicky Googasian speaks with Elizabeth Barrios, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Latino/a Studies at Albion College about Venezuelan oil literature, what fiction has to say about everyday energetic life, and why oil industry propaganda is fun.
Elizabeth Barrios | Reading for Oil | June 2021
June 28, 2021 06:41 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBIn this episode, Vicky Googasian speaks with Elizabeth Barrios, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Latino/a Studies at Albion College about Venezuelan oil literature, what fiction has to say about everyday energetic life, and why oil industry propaganda is fun.