Environment Forum

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Sonja Dümpelmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich) Moderator: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University About the Event Why do we plant and often protect trees in cities? Throughout history, humans have attributed healthy...

Photo Credit: Kate Joyce / SFI THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma About the Speakers Kyle Harper is the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, Professor of Classics and Letters, Senior Advisor to the...

Photo Credit: Barbara Kinney THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Terry Tempest Williams, Writer, Educator, and Environmental Activist; Writer-in-Residence at Harvard Divinity School Moderator: Robin Kelsey, Harvard University About the Event We are all...

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Michael Lobel, Hunter College Moderator: Robin Kelsey, Harvard University About the Event Vincent van Gogh has become indelibly identified with depictions of the natural world, from the variegated colorations of flowers...

Climate in Words and Numbers: How People in Early America Recorded Weather in Almanacs, 1646-1821 This event is open to Harvard affiliates only and registration is required. REGISTER HERE Speaker: Joyce Chaplin A database of 10,661 almanacs, drawn from...

Speaker: Elizabeth Kolbert Moderator: Robin Kelsey About the Speakers Elizabeth Kolbert traveled from Alaska to Greenland, and visited top scientists, to get to the heart of the debate over global warming. The result is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural...

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKER: Emanuele Coccia Moderator: Robin Kelsey About the Event Human beings were able to develop a stable relationship with the land and abandon the hunter-gatherer lifestyle only when some communities decided to faithfully and...

The Environment Forum Harvard University Department of Music RESERVE FREE TICKETS About the Event Parker Quartet and mezzo soprano Fleur Barron with poetry readings woven through the program by Arthur Sze and Victoria Chang. This program is tied together...

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKER: Ranjan Ghosh Moderated by Robin Kelsey About the Event What kind of a negotiation and home has nature built with plastic, a material that is a travelling and transformative genius? In a neo-materialist and an interobjective...