Climate Mobilities Working Group Speaker Series: “Reclaiming Climate Mobility Futures in the Pacific”
Carol Farbotko, School of Geography, University of Melbourne, is the fifth and final speaker in the Climate Mobilities Working Group – 2023 Speaker Series. The Climate Mobilities Working Group is an interdisciplinary research group of scholars from a range of institutions who…
“Cool Thoughts on a Hot Topic”
Is it getting hotter? Are storms changing? What’s causing this? What can we do? HMEI Director, Gabe Vecchi, will moderate a panel and audience Q&A about climate change: its causes and impacts, and what it means for humanity. Faculty and…
Climate Mobilities Working Group Speaker Series: “Planet Repairs & The Imperative for Reparative Climate Mobility Justice”
Esther Stanford-Xosei, Stop The Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign, is the fourth speaker in the Climate Mobilities Working Group – 2023 Speaker Series. Esther Stanford-Xosei is a Jurisconsult, decolonial Reparationist, and Community Advocate specializing in the critical legal praxis of…
“Veins of Conflict: Bodies and the Environment in Peru’s Copper Circuit, 1884-1930”
Juan Rubio, postdoctoral research associate at Effron Center for the Study of America, will present “Veins of Conflict: Bodies and the Environment in Peru's Copper Circuit, 1884-1930” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27, in Morrison Hall, Room 224. Register by…
Discovery Day 2023
Discovery Day is a multidisciplinary poster show celebrating student research on environmental topics. The event provides an opportunity for students to display and discuss their research methodologies and results, exchange perspectives, and identify potential solutions to pressing environmental challenges. One…
HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Carbon Utilization and Other Needed Technologies for the Transition to Net Zero”
Emily Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Applied and Computational Mathematics, will present “Carbon Utilization and Other Needed Technologies for…
“Thoreau’s Walden: A Religious Vision of Environmental Justice?”
Come engage with Alda Balthrop-Lewis as part of the Religion and Environmental Justice Event Series. Dr. Balthrop-Lewis will cover themes in her book Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (Cambridge, 2021). A response will given…
Climate Mobilities Working Group Speaker Series: “Migration and Climate from a Demographic Perspective”
Lori Hunter, Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder, is the third speaker in the Climate Mobilities Working Group – 2023 Speaker Series. The Climate Mobilities Working Group is an interdisciplinary research group of scholars from a range of institutions who examine the ethics, justice,…
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “How do we see beyond the petrochemical-plantation horizon?”
Imani Jacqueline Brown, Queen Mary, University of London, will present “How do we see beyond the petrochemical-plantation horizon?” for the last talk in the spring 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium. The cosmology of “extractivism”, which spans from colonialism…
