October 4 – Reading Group
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
November 8 – Towards a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene
Public lecture by Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA)
Partnership with the Global Postcolonialisms Collective and the Animal and Environmental Humanities Workshop
November 15 – Reading Group
- “Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene,” by Nils Bubandt, in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, edited by Anna Tsing et al.
- “Synchronies at Risk: The Intertwined Lives of Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knot Birds,” by Peter Funch, in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, edited by Anna Tsing et al.
December 6 – Dissertation Workshop
“Mapping the Nation: Cartography, Taxonomy, and Land-Making” by Secil Binboga
January 17 – Reading Group
The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History by Andy Bruno
February 1 – Symposium
“Confronting a Climate of Despair” with Dagomar Degroot
Partnership with the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
February 1 – Writing Workshop
“Something New in the Sun” by Dagomar Degroot
“Affecting Weather: Pathos and Political Climate in the Carolingian World” by David Patterson
Environmental History Interest Group 