Prof. Stacey Balkan Presents at Capitalism, Climate, and Cultural Study Symposium

Professor Stacey Balkan will present at the Capitalism, Climate, and Cultural Study symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Humanities Research Institute on September 29th.

Balkan's presentation is titled "Electric Ladyland: Anticolonial Solarpunk as Infrastructural Resistance in Two Works of Speculative Fiction."

This symposium will elaborate three basic ideas: that climate change constitutes a planetary emergency; that capitalism is a primary driver, both in the present and historically, of that emergency; and that literary and cultural studies are critical for understanding how we got into this predicament and for finding our way out.