Lecture | Subjunctive Aesthetics and the Poetics of Extinction

17 September 2024, 4:00PM - 5:00PM. Speaker: Professor Carolyn Fornoff (Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University). Chaired and co-organised by Dr Jamille Pinheiro Dias (ILCS/CLACS) and Dr Gianfranco Selgas (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL). In the context of environmental crisis, literature and visual art have often been valorized for their evidentiary, mimetic, or didactic force; the ability of representation to make the invisible visible and raise public awareness to the ...