Environment Forum

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKER: David Jones REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT Please note that this event is open to Harvard affiliates only and registration is required. About the Event As global warming became a cause of concern in the 1980s, researchers and...

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 SPEAKER: Heather Houser, The University of Texas at Austin Moderator: Sarah Dimick Does climate crisis require a rethinking of fertility and family? This question motivates my book-in-progress, Our Bodies, Our Climate, and while the...

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKER: Hi'ilei Hobart, Yale University In Conversation with Sarah Dimick and Rebecca Hogue In February 2020, a group of Kanaka ‘Ōiwi cultural practitioners arrived in Cambridge, England, to repatriate ancestral remains stolen from...

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...

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...

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM About the Event Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us is also a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. Lauret Savoy’s Trace interweaves journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time to explore how...

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...

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKER: Patrick Whitmarsh REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT About the Speaker Patrick Whitmarsh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross where he teaches 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American literature. His...

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...