#  Environmental Humanities Seminar with Jordan B. Kinder 

 



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 **March 2, 2023** 

 03:00PM - 03:00PM EST 

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 **Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)**  



 

 



 

##  "Spectres of Settler Infrastructuralisms: Van Ginkel Associates Go North"

###  Speaker: Jordan B. Kinder, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

###  Respondent: Abby Spinak

 [Jordan B. Kinder](/people/jordan-b-kinder) is a Métis and settler-British media studies and environmental humanities scholar from a resource town in what is now known as northern British Columbia, Canada. He studies the cultural politics of energy, infrastructure, media, and environment. His current book project, titled *Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil in the Age of Social Media*, examines the pro-oil movement in Canada’s use of social media to refigure Canadian oil as a socially, economically, and ecologically progressive force. He holds a PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of Alberta and, before joining the Mahindra Humanities Center, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (2020-22). His work can be found in *South Atlantic Quarterly*, the*Canadian Journal of Communication*, *Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond* (West Virginia UP), *Socialism and Democracy*, *Mediations*, and elsewhere. At the Mahindra Humanities Center, he will be completing work on a new project titled *Between Foreclosure and Possibility: Competing Energy and Infrastructural Imaginaries in the Contemporary Canadian Mediascape*. The project studies extractive and post-extractive energy and infrastructural imaginaries by focusing on a set of in-construction energy infrastructures in Canada’s northwest.

 [Abby Spinak](https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/abby-spinak/) is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She studies energy history, with a particular interest in the politics of utility ownership and the role of infrastructure in disseminating economic ideas.

 *Registration is required for this event. Please check back for a registration link, coming soon.*

###  About the Series

 The Mahindra Humanities Center presents an Environmental Humanities seminar series with our 2022-23 postdoctoral fellows.



 

 



 

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