Cohen, Jeffrey JeromeYates, Julian2023-06-072023-06-072016-02-12Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, and Julian Yates. “Introduction: (An Environing of This Book).” In Object Oriented Environs, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates, xi–xxvi. Punctum Books, 2016. https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0130.1.009780692642030https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/32836This book chapter was originally published in Object Oriented Environs. The full e-book is available from the publisher at https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0130.1.00IN THE SPRING OF 2013, WE WERE INVITED TO PROPOSE A POSSIBLE session for the Shakespeare Association of America meeting in St. Louis for 2014. The SAA is an organization that, in addition to running paper panels at its annul conference, offers participants the opportunity to share work-in-progress through themed seminars. The two of us had been in conversation for some time about nonhumans, things, animal, vegetable, and mineral, medieval and renaissance, about questions of ecology, and how to craft nontraditional conversation and thinking spaces in which something unanticipated might unfold. We decided to collaborate to build a gathering that...en-USBook chapter