T S Eliot's 'The Waste Land' in the Anthropocene

This public roundtable event brings the canon of TS Eliot's poetic modernism forward a hundred years, to read it not so much in retrospect, but to revisit it in the shadow of the Anthropocene.

The conversation will generate renewed perspectives on interrogation of the changing relations between humanity and nature. Equally, it is a suitable moment to ask how its ecocritical speculations on the wonder and dread of the nonhuman world have held up, and to consider how its posthuman reflections can be carried forward to indigenise and decolonise the Anthropocene.

This event is organised by Dr Pushpa Arabindoo, UCL Geography and Co-Director of UCL Urban Laboratory, and Nicola Baldwin, playwright and UCL Creative Fellow (2019-20). 

Speakers:

Miranda Miller, author and RLF Fellow
Dr Julia Jordan, UCL English
Dr Pavan Manogaran, Sarah Parker Remond Centre, UCL

With Tara Kearney presenting an extract from Wasteland