The Environment
November 4, 2009 - Olive Bieringa, founder of the BodyCartography Project, and physicist Bryce Beverlin II talk about 1/2 Life, a project which addresses the environmental problems of nuclear residue and indestructible plastics.
November 3, 2009 - Stacy Alaimo is a professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published essays on feminist theory, eco-theory, and green cultural studies, as well as a book entitled Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000).
September 25, 2009 - Dr. Matt Huber is in residence at the IAS during the fall of 2009 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant. He argues that the geopolitical fixation on petroleum resources emerges out of historically specific relationships between fossil fuel energy, capitalism, and everyday social reproduction.
"Ethics and Climate Change": An Earth Day presentation by Andrew Light, April 22, 2009
April 22, 2009 - Andrew Light is a professor of Philosophy and Environmental Policy and Director for the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University.
"Trouble with Toxics": A presentation by Kim Fortun, April 17, 2009
"The Green New Deal": A talk with Melinda Cooper, April 14, 2009
"Wastelands and Wilderness": Presentation by Peter Galison, January 23, 2009
October 12, 2008 - Two Scholars: History and Environmental Ethics - William Cunningham is an environmental scientist and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota. He is particularly interested in conservation biology and environmental issues.
J. Baird Callicott is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He taught an early environmental ethics course at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point in 1971 and environmental ethics has remained his central focus.
"Life on the Upper Mississippi" - Performance by Patricia Hampl with Dan Chouinard, October 9, 2008
Symposium: "The City, the River, the Bridge," October 10, 2008
November, 2007 - Susan MacIntosh is a professor of Anthropology at Rice Universiy. Her current research focuses on the emergence of large-scale, complex societies in Africa and the impact of climate and environmental change on human society in the past.
September, 2006 - Lynn Lukkas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and is a member of the Program in Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota.