The Humanities in Deep Time conference explores the impact of deep time thinking in the environmental humanities by bringing together leading scholars, thinkers, and visionaries, and asking how the recent interest in deep time has been received in various disciplines. What role can literature play in grappling with such extended temporalities? How have historians and anthropologists coped with the need to mesh their timescales with those of the geologists? What place do religions have in shaping our understandings of both time and eternity? And how might we envisage the task of ethics from the perspective of deep time?
Alongside the conference we will also be holding a ‘deep time’ poetry competition. The two winning poets will be invited to read their poem at the conference and will each receive a one-hundred-pound book token as a prize. All entries will be considered for publication in the Michaelmas 2021 edition of the Oxford University Poetry Society journal, Ash.
The competition will be judged by Jade Cuttle, Eco-poet and Arts Commissioning Editor at the Times.
To enter the competition, please email your poem to: deeptimeox@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Friday 18th June.
You can read more about the conference and how to register here.
Environmental Humanities, TORCH Programmes
