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<p><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Associate Prof. Elizabeth DeLoughrey, UCLA</span><br>
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<p>Event Link: <a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/cap_events/attachments/2014/Nov/DeLoughrey_Poster_V2.pdf" id="lnk252564">http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/cap_events/attachments/2014/Nov/DeLoughrey_Poster_V2.pdf</a>​<br>
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<em style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; vertical-align:baseline">Public lecture jointly hosted by the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (CASS) and the Department of Gender, Media & Cultural Studies (CAP).</em></p>
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<span style="line-height:16px">2–3.30pm 3 December 2014</span></p>
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<span style="line-height:16px">HRC Conference Room, Level 1, A. D. Hope Bldg 14, ANU</span></p>
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Twenty years ago, Epeli Hau`ofa published his influential essay "Our Sea of Islands," arguing that the legacies of colonial belittlement that render the Pacific as "islands in a far sea" need to be replaced with a more accurate and world-enlarging view. Instead,
he argued, we must recognize the primacy of the largest ocean on the planet which facilitated both the legacies of Pacific voyaging as well as contemporary circuits of globalization, rendering the region as "a sea of islands" better known as Oceania. While
Hau`ofa was concerned with the ecological health of the ocean, he could not have foreseen the ways in which climate change, particularly sea-level rise, has transformed islands that are in fact threatened by the expansion of the sea, faced with a new era of
what has increasingly been termed "carbon colonialism." The dramatic changes to the geographies of low-lying atolls in the Pacific have generated an unprecedented body of cultural narratives that are translating the urgency of climate change mitigation to
a global audience. My paper will explore the rise in documentaries that are visualizing the challenges faced by island communities such as Tokelau, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Marshalls as some adapt and, increasingly, migrate in response to the
erosion and salinization of their lands, and will raise questions about a type of imperial nostalgia and "salvage environmentalism" at work in the production of some climate change discourse.</p>
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<strong style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; vertical-align:baseline; background-color:transparent">Elizabeth DeLoughrey</strong> is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability
at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures, and co-editor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment, Postcolonial Ecologies: Literature
and the Environment, and a forthcoming volume entitled Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches. She is completing a manuscript about climate change and empire in literature and the visual arts.</p>
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<strong style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; vertical-align:baseline; background-color:transparent">Elizabeth will also be available in the morning of 3rd December to talk to postgraduate student about projects in the environmental humanities.
Students should email <a href="mailto:Rosanne.Kennedy@anu.edu.au" class="acton-tabs-link-processed" style="color:rgb(76,110,120); word-wrap:break-word">Rosanne.Kennedy@anu.edu.au</a>, if they are interested in meeting her.</strong></p>
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