Irish Anthropocene Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty
Thursday 22 October 2026, 12 midday - 1.30pm
Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
All welcome
This talk introduces the book Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty (Syracuse University Press, 2026), in which Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature responds to climate breakdown and engages with the entangled relations between ecology, economy, and politics. Irish writers not only critique the association of greenness with Ireland and the corporatization of sustainability discourses, they also illuminate the acute challenges that the climate crisis poses to political, social, and cultural forms in addition to ecosystems.
Malcolm Sen is the director of the Environmental Humanities Specialization and an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the editor of A History of Irish Literature and the Environment and co-editor of Race in Irish Literature and Culture.
