Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change”
Adriana Petryna, professor and director of the M.D.-Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will present “Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change” via Zoom — click here to join.
Climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time based on established patterns. Rapidly faltering projections are colliding with the dangerous realities of emergency response, particularly to wildfires. Petryna will explore the climate future in terms of horizoning, a mode of thinking that considers natural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people can still act.
Petryna is the second speaker in the Spring 2022 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).
Additional speakers and dates in this series are:
March 16
“Toxique: France’s Nuclear Testing Legacy in the Pacific“ — Sebastien Philippe, Associate Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
April 18
“The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change“ — Amitav Ghosh, Author (co-sponsored with the Princeton Program in South Asian Studies)
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change”
Event Date
Wed, Apr 6, 2022 ・ 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Adriana Petryna, professor and director of the M.D.-Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will present “Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change” via Zoom — click here to join.
Climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time based on established patterns. Rapidly faltering projections are colliding with the dangerous realities of emergency response, particularly to wildfires. Petryna will explore the climate future in terms of horizoning, a mode of thinking that considers natural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people can still act.
Petryna is the second speaker in the Spring 2022 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).
Additional speakers and dates in this series are:
March 16
“Toxique: France’s Nuclear Testing Legacy in the Pacific“ — Sebastien Philippe, Associate Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
April 18
“The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change“ — Amitav Ghosh, Author (co-sponsored with the Princeton Program in South Asian Studies)
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