# History & Literature in an Extractive Age #### calendar\_today Date and Time **June 23, 2022** 01:00PM - 02:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Zoom** [ Register for this event >> arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpfuygrDMtE9QOPCWCQsELh4BAbPOIlLx9) How might historical narratives and literary analyses help us better make sense of the intensive extraction of the Earth’s resources that underlies our modern era? Historian of science **Victor Seow** and literary scholar **Elizabeth Carolyn Miller** will draw upon their recently published books to reflect on this question. ![history_literature_in_an_extractive_age_sq.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10846/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/huce/files/history_literature_in_an_extractive_age_sq.png?itok=sPA9jR9L) How might historical narratives and literary analyses help us better make sense of the intensive extraction of the Earth’s resources that underlies our modern era? In this discussion, historian of science [Victor Seow](https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow) and literary scholar [Elizabeth Carolyn Miller](https://english.ucdavis.edu/people/ecmill) will draw upon their recently published books to reflect on the centrality of humanistic inquiry to our confrontation with the confluent crises of our present. They will be joined in conversation by [Karen L. Thornber](https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/karen-thornber), the Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. [Register for this event >>](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpfuygrDMtE9QOPCWCQsELh4BAbPOIlLx9) See also:- [ Arts & Humanities ](/research-areas/arts-and-humanities) - [ Social Sciences ](/research-areas/social-sciences) - [ Faculty of Arts and Sciences ](/school/faculty-arts-and-sciences) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.environment.harvard.edu/node/1437672/event-feed.ics) Copy link link