FHI Field Trips | Arboreal Entanglement at Sandy Creek Park
Hosted by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Field Trips is a new series on environmental humanities, with special emphasis on the emerging field of plant studies in the humanities. each FHI Field Trip combines a mini-seminar with an interpretive tour, at a physical site that has shaped the work under discussion.
This is a small-group event with limited capacity: registration is required here. Registrants will receive readings, directions, and logistical info prior to event. Please note that the walk will take us through a wetland pond and wooded terrain.
The next FHI Field Trip will take place at Sandy Creek Park, the site of an urban wetland off 15/501 and a former wastewater treatment plant (originally serving Duke University). Our presenter and guide will be Richard Grusin, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Senior Visiting Scholar at the FHI, and self-described amateur arboreal theorist. Prof. Grusin will share a short piece of writing from his current project on Arboreal Humanities. For more about the history and ecology of the park, check out the Friends and Neighbors of Sandy Creek Park website.
Richard Grusin has published numerous articles and book chapters and authored five books: Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible (Duke, 1991); Remediation: Understanding New Media (MIT, 1999), co-authored with Jay David Bolter; Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge, 2004); Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11 (Palgrave, 2010); and Radical Mediation: Cinema, Estetica, e Tecnologie Digitali, ed. and trans. Angela Maiello (Cosenza, Italy: Pellegrini Editor, 2017). He has edited six volumes of essays, all with Minnesota University Press: The Nonhuman Turn (2015); Anthropocene Feminism (2017); After Extinction (2018); Ends of Cinema, with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (2020); Insecurity (2022); and The Long 2020, with Maureen Ryan (2023).
