Becoming Botanical: Plant Life in Modern Japan
This month we sat down with Jon Pitt to discuss his new book "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan." The book spans Japanese writers and filmmakers from the 1930s to today whose wo...
5 Sep 202547min
Defining Disaster, Defining Ecocinema: Taking a Closer Look at Japan with Rachel DiNitto
For this month’s episode, we sat down with Rachel DiNitto to discuss the pioneering edited volume Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema (2024) and her own chapter in it on "Toxicoscapes." With thematic cov...
3 Aug 202543min
Environmentalisms: Latinx Catholicism and the Environment
In this episode, Alex sat down with Amanda Baugh to chat about her new book, Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism. An ethnographic study of Hispanic Catholics, B...
3 Jul 202542min
One Day At A Time: Kate Rigby's Meditation on Creation
For this episode, we sat down with Kate Rigby to discuss her new book Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction. The text is a reclaiming of the ancient theological meditation form, the hexamero...
30 Mai 202557min
Creating Coralations: Melody Jue and Finding New Coral Protagonists
We sat down with Melody Jue for a second episode to discuss her new work Coralations, a fascinating deep dive into the coral we know and the coral we need to know. Though tropical corals inundate perc...
2 Mai 202545min
Building an Audio Series: BlueLab's "Mining for the Climate"
This month's episode is a podcast about a podcast! We sat down with Nate Otjen and Jessica Ng, two of the leaders of the audio story series "Mining for the Climate," to discuss the audio documentary s...
4 Apr 202552min
Arrhythmic Time Keeping: Seasonality in the Anthropocene
In this month's episode, we spoke with Sarah Dimick about her new book Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. It connects literature and the environment through an idea of seasonality and...
28 Feb 202536min
What 'Might' The World Be, What Might It Become? Carolyn Fornoff's Subjunctive Aesthetics
Today's episode begins a slight turn toward ecoaesthetics in the next few episodes, and we begin with Carolyn Fornoff's new book Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Clima...
29 Jan 202545min
