Prof. Simon Estok of Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul) who is widely recognized as having expanded the definition of the term "ecophobia" from its usage in psychology to a broader set of applications in the Environmental Humanitie will be the guest of the eleventh program of the seminar series “A Common Horizon for Humanity and the Planet”. The seminar will be broadcasted live on the Cappadocia University YouTube channel on Tuesday, May 17 at 20:00 (Turkish Time). He is the author “Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia” (2011) and “The Ecophobia Hypothesis” (2018), co-author or editor of “East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader” (2013), “International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism” (2013) and “Landscape, Seascape, and the Ecocritical Imagination” (2016). The book “The Ecophobia Hypothesis” was translated into Turkish by the Cappadocia University Press under the title of “Ekofobi Hipotezi” (2021). The conversation will be on the topic of “COVID-19 and Ecophobia Reflex” and the program will be moderated by Professor Serpil Opperman of Cappadocia University.
