Please join us in welcoming Caroline Levine (Cornell), ACCUTE’s 2024 Keynote Speaker. Her presentation, “Studying Literature in the Climate Crisis, or a Tale of Three Pipelines,” will take place at Concordia University’s McConnell Building LB 125 at 3:30 p.m. EDT on June 13, 2024. It will also be streamed online.

The livestream can be accessed through the Congress virtual platform and by request. Please email info.accute@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

Keynote speaker Erín Moure will present at our 2025 conference.

Caroline Levine

“Studying Literature in the Climate Crisis, or a Tale of Three Pipelines.”

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m, Thursday, June 13, 2024; Concordia University McConnell Building LB 125, 1400 de Maisonneuve W

Also available on the Congress Virtual Platform. If you do not have access to the Virtual Platform, please contact info.accute@gmail.com for the link.

Co-sponsored with RhetCanada, ESAC, and CAPS, and University of Toronto Press Journals.

Caroline Levine is the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. She has spent her career asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter, especially in democratic societies. She argues for an understanding of forms and structures as essential both to understanding links between art and society and to the challenge of taking meaningful political action. She is the author of four books. The most recent, The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (Princeton University Press 2023), grows out of the theoretical work of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the MLA, and named one of Flavorwire’s “10 Must-Read Academic Books of 2015”). Levine has also published The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (2003) and Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007). She is currently the nineteenth-century editor for the Norton Anthology of World Literature and spends much of her free time engaged in climate activism, including the successful drive to divest the Cornell endowment.