Zoe Weldon-Yochim presents at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) 13th Biennial Conference

In June of 2019, Zoe Weldon-Yochim presented "'A Living Knowledge': Picturing Relationships and Respect in Qavavau Manumie's Birds Holding World, Moon," for the panel "Arctic Art and Climate Change" at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). Her essay argues that Manumie's (Inuit, b. 1958) drawing Birds Holding World, Moon incorporates "whole Earth" imagery—such as the first color photographs of Earth captured by NASA's ATS-3 in 1967—yet responds to the limitations of these totalizing representations of the planet, ultimately offering a visual and intellectual alternative to the very systems responsible for generating climate change.