Lectures & Keynotes
Life after Earth
Princeton University Princeton, NJ, United StatesThe 2019 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow lecture, this talk connected twentieth-century engineered transformations of the California landscape to past and ongoing proposals for extraterrestrial engineering, and examined the assumptions underlying real-world and speculative world-building projects.
Nature by design
Princeton University Princeton, NJ, United StatesProposals to revive and reintroduce extinct species—known as de-extinction—garner outsize attention in discussions of biodiversity loss and climate adaptation. “Nature by Design” compares the scientific literature and popular science around de-extinction as it has been envisioned in the U.S. and considers its complicated relationship to the discourse of rewilding cities, farmlands, forests and parks.
Nature remade
University of Tennessee (Virtual) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States"Nature remade" addresses a strain of environmental thought centered on the West Coast that advances a simultaneously neocolonial and futuristic orientation to the climate crisis. Through this lens of nature remade,ecosystems must be technologically retrofitted to sustain privileged modes of human life—rather than remediated through structural transformations that arc toward environmental justice.
‘The science is clear’: Why the climate crisis needs new narratives”
Princeton University Princeton, NJ, United States"'The Science is Clear" make a case for narratives that develop localized, lived accounts of climate change by drawing from examples that at once contribute on-the-ground knowledge and envision possible futures beyond catastrophe.
Experiments in environmental humanities: Research, teaching, collaboration
This lecture and workshop will be held for faculty and student fellows as well as community partners in the Mellon-funded HumanitiesX Collaborative at DePaul University. It will introduce the environmental humanities as a field and share several examples of projects and centers that offer models of the field's experimental, place-based and participatory approaches.