2026 Broadus Lectures: Feminist Ecologies: Theory and Poetics in Canada

Join us on October 14-16 for the 2026 Broadus Lectures: Feminist Ecologies: Theory and Poetics in Canada by Marie Carrière.

Invoking their settler positionality and responsibilities, these lectures will enter spaces of Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois theory and cultural production. A relatively new critical term, feminist ecologies present a multilayered and productive nomenclature that adopts the intersectional and anti-colonial lens necessary to fully understand the impact of the global environmental crisis. In fact, feminist ecologies dovetail with various strands of thought, namely Indigenous feminisms and ethics, material feminisms, and the feminist ethics of care, with their crucial interventions in anthropocentrism, extractive logics, and anthropocenic discourse. But theory is one thing, and poetry is another; literary affects of loss and grief in the work of Turtle Island poets compel us to consider both the devastatingly destructive as well as the perversely productive elements of the anthropocene that call, ultimately, for an ethics of care. The underlying cross-border approach of these lectures asks: How can Indigenous cosmologies, feminist epistemologies, and poetic practices align to challenge patriarchal, colonial, and utilitarian ways of seeing, being in, and caring for, the environment?

Lecture 1: In Arborescence, or “Women are the First Environment”
Wednesday, October 14, 3:30 p.m., Humanities L1-L3

Lecture 2: In the Anthropocene
Thursday, October 15, 3:30 p.m., Humanities L1-L3

Lecture 3: On Care Ethics
Friday, October 16, 2 p.m., Humanities L1-L3
Reception to follow at 3:30 p.m., Salter Reading Room (HC 3-95)