Report // Julien Nègre, “Cute Berries and Dead Indians: Thoreau’s Environment,” 2 February 2024
Julien Nègre (ENS-Lyon) will give a talk provisionally titled “Cute Berries and Dead Indians: Thoreau’s Environment.” Michael Jonik (University of Sussex) will be respondent.
We will look at 3 excerpts in particular (attached):
- Wild Fruits, the “European Cranberry” section (3 pages) in which Thoreau formulates a theory of the excursion and of its epistemological, sensory and political value;
- Two passages from Thoreau’s journal in which he visits his friend Daniel Ricketson in New Bedford and interacts with Native Americans: Oct, 1855 (page 5 of the PDF) and June, 1856 (pp. 16-17 of the PDF).
“Wild Fruits illustrates Thoreau’s naturalist outlook in the 1850s, at the crossroads between environmental concerns and political redefinition of the occupation of space and time. This intervention will contrast a passage from Wild Fruits with Thoreau’s cartographic archives found recently and linked to his Indian notebooks. “
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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Thomas Constantinesco (16 janvier 2024). Friday, Feb. 2, 2pm (B20, Institut Catholique de Paris, 74, rue de Vaugirard, 75006 / Zoom). Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon) : « Petites baies et Indiens morts : l’environnement de Thoreau » (joint seminar A19 / Environmental Humanities @LARCA, « humanités et questions environnementales » @ICP). A19. Consulté le 20 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/vm02
Ping : Session 27: Thoreau, récit de soi et environnement – ICP / LARCA / VALE – Environmental Humanities – LARCA, Université Paris Cité, France
Ping : SEM: 2 février – Thoreau, récit de soi et environnement – ICP / LARCA / VALE, le 02 février 2024 – Écopoétique