On April 10, 2024 at 4:30 PM in the Torian Room, Dr. Nathan Hensley (Georgetown University) will offer a lecture, "George Eliot in the Age of Climate Breakdown." The lecture is free and open to the public.
The talk draws on Hensley book-in-progress, which explores "how the nineteenth century used aesthetic forms to think about massive, distributed systems and the failure of those systems." The lecture is free and open to the public.Dr. Hensley is the author of the Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (Oxford University Press, 2016).