Focus on the Humanities

English Professor Rob Nixon will discuss "slow violence" - environmental threats "that patiently dispense their devastation while remaining outside our flickering attention spans," and that "of a spectacle-powered media." Underrepresentation of slow violence exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and injustices of class, gender, race, and region. Nixon will track ways that writers and filmmakers have faced the storytelling challenges posed by attritional environmental degradation.