February 6-7, 2017: Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota, Department of Geography, Environment, & Society): “Fractured lives: geology and precarity in the North Dakota oil fields.” Lecture and workshop. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Working Group on The Anthropocene.
February 2, 2017: The Problem of the Human. Research Commons. 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
January 19, 2017: Jason W. Moore (SUNY-Binghamton). Workshop on his essay, “The Capitalocene, Part I: On the Nature and Origins of Our Ecological Crisis.”
FALL 2016:
November 2, 2016: Anthropocene: The Movie. Screening and discussion with director Stephen Bradshaw. The Gateway Film Center, 7:00 p.m. View more info about the event and the trailer here
December 1 2016: Allen MacDuffie (University of Texas-Austin Department of English): “Energy, Ecology, and Breaking Bad’s Unsustainability.” 4:00 p.m. Place TBA. Co-sponsored with the Department of English.
December 2, 2016: Workshop with Allen MacDuffie on Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and Breaking Bad. 10:00 a.m. Place TBA. Co-sponsored with the Department of English.