7:30 on Wednesday, February 26th

Room 137, Isenberg School of Management

UMass Amherst

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Pouring Water Over Troubled Oil

(2023, Nariman Massoumi, United Kingdom, 26min, in English)

In 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company set out to produce a publicity film promoting its activities in Iran. They hired the poet Dylan Thomas. This poetic film follows Thomas’s journey capturing his encounter with the country and its people as a political upheaval for oil nationalization unfolds.

Film Screening

Wednesday, February 26th

Free and open to the public

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Malcolm Sen is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Director of the Environmental Humanities Specialization. His research interests focus on questions of justice, statecraft, and postcolonial politics as they emerge in this contemporary moment of climate crisis.

At UMass Amherst, he teaches courses on environmental humanities and postcolonial studies at the graduate level, and Irish literature, global Anglophone literature, and climate fiction at the undergraduate level. Before joining UMass, Malcolm was an “Irish Research Council Elevate Fellow” at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment. He was also awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Notre Dame. See a list of some his publications below. Malcolm has also written for The Irish Times, The Chicago Review of Books, and History Ireland. He has been a commentator and radio-essayist on Irish radio, has worked as a researcher for a PBS documentary series, and as a researcher for Fairtrade Ireland. He hosts a podcast series on Irish literature and the Environmental Humanities.

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