Events & Outreach

HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean”

Christina Gerhardt, the Barron Visiting Professor in the Environmental Humanities in the High Meadows Environmental Institute and visiting associate professor of HMEI and the German Department, will present “Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean” for our second talk in the fall 2021 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.

Gerhardt will discuss her book project, “Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean,” in which she combines geography and cartography, literary studies and creative non-fiction, and environmental studies and environmental humanities to examine the impacts of climate change on low-lying islands and the solutions being put forward — often by Indigenous islanders — to address them.

Jerry Zee, assistant professor of anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, will lead a discussion and Q&A after the main presentation.

Additional dates and speakers in this series are below.

September 14

“Low-Cost Calcium-based Solid Sorbents for Carbon Capture” — Claire White, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

November 2

“Necropolitics at the End of Empire: The Paradox of White Supremacy in the U.S.” — Carolyn Rouse, Ritter Professor of Anthropology

December 7

“Building Forms That Adapt to the Natural Environment” — Sigrid Adriaenssens, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering