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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Department of English Language and Literature is proud to announce

</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“‘another, flickering world’: Petrocultures of the North Atlantic,” a talk by Dr. </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Derek

 Gladwin</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> to take place Friday</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> November 24, 3-5pm in

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mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">373</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">. All are welcome to

 attend. </span><br>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">This talk explores the relationship between oil and memory in the North Sea. Linking place-based poetry, film, and web-based media,

this talk considers how Roseanne Watt’s filmpoem Sullom (2014) unsettles dominant histories of North Sea oil culture (petroculture) in the Shetland Isles by confronting environmental and spatial injustices.

<i>Sullom’s</i> musical score offers an additional element that creates an anti-aesthetic, ironizing petrochemical advertisement campaigns produced by energy companies such as Suncor Energy’s

<i>See What Yes Can Do</i> (2013). Watt’s filmpoem ultimately confronts the spaces of Sullom Voe, which is an enormous oil terminal on Shetland, through a combination of literary and visual narratives of place that reclaim

</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ways of being in the world from the dominant petroculture in which they function.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Derek

 Gladwin is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Literature and Language at the University of Waterloo. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:

Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">He has previously held invited visiting

 research fellowships in the environmental humanities at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin.

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His research explores transformations in environment and society through 20th-/21st-Century literature, as well as film and media culture.

</span>His<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> books include</span><i> Eco-Joyce</i>

 (co-ed., 2014),<i> Unfolding Irish Landscapes</i><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

 (co-ed., 2016), and <i>Contentious Terrains</i> (2016), which was a finalist for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment 2016 Ecocriticism Book Award. His forthcoming books include

<i>Ecological Exile</i> (2017) and <i>Gastro-Modernism</i> (ed., 2018). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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