CONGRESS CANCELED Environment and Apocalypse: Medieval and Modern Ecologies (A Roundtable)
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Our ever-warming and resource desperate planet is in a state of existential crisis: we face a looming environmental apocalypse of our own making. The challenges we confront in the Anthropocene—climate change, rising sea levels, accelerated species extinction—are as globally interconnected as they are acute. This session will explore how we might approach our current ecological crisis through the ecological crises of the global Middle Ages, including (but not limited to) climatic and meteorological shifts, plague and epidemic disease, famine, drought and flood, and climate migration. How might the ecological sensibilities of the Middle Ages and the present intersect? David Coley
CONGRESS CANCELED Environment and Apocalypse: Medieval and Modern Ecologies (A Roundtable)
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Our ever-warming and resource desperate planet is in a state of existential crisis: we face a looming environmental apocalypse of our own making. The challenges we confront in the Anthropocene—climate change, rising sea levels, accelerated species extinction—are as globally interconnected as they are acute. This session will explore how we might approach our current ecological crisis through the ecological crises of the global Middle Ages, including (but not limited to) climatic and meteorological shifts, plague and epidemic disease, famine, drought and flood, and climate migration. How might the ecological sensibilities of the Middle Ages and the present intersect? David Coley