This talk dwells in the stories of residents living in Mumbai’s wet worlds, to show how the climate is already being inhabited in the city. Register here: tinyurl.com/urbanclimates

Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

220 South 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Suggested readings:

• Kyle Whyte "Indigenous Science (Fiction) for the Anthropocene" Environment and Planning E

• Zoe Todd, "Fish, Kin, Hope" Afterall

• Elizabeth Povinelli, The Wasted Earth: Excess, Superabundance, and Sludge.” eflux journal #129

Rm 419, Penn Museum

The Family & the Zombie (2021, 30 mins)

Night Fishing with Ancestors (2023, 25 minutes) - trailer

Location TBA

Today, anthropogenic climate change — cyclones, floods, and storm surges permeate and punctuate the regularity of everyday life in much of South and Southeast Asia. The catastrophic harms that are visited by these events are neither linear nor are they evenly distributed, but are a result of historic projects to manage, tame and regulate waters with the land-centric imaginaries of colonial and postcolonial states. Rather than approach questions of design and history with dry ground at the center, Nikhil Anand (Penn Anthropology), Prasenjit Duara (Duke History), Maira Hayat (Notre Dame Kroc Institute), and Marvi Mazhar (architect and researcher) think about the kinds of futures and histories that might be made thinking in and from the waterscapes (oceans, rivers and littoral regions) in which they have long worked.

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th floor
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
Van Pelt Library, 3420 Walnut Street

Registration and more information here.

Dr. Marcy Norton (Penn History) will be joining us to share the Introduction chapter of her new book The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492 (HUP 2024).

Workshop for lab members to practice their AAA talks. Please let Pablo or Vivian know if you have something to share.

Dr. Andrea Ballestero (USC Anthropology) and Dr. Radhika Govindrajan (UW Anthropology) will join us for an informal conversation on the different horizons in environmental anthropology. We will use JP Brosius' "Anthropological Engagements with Environmentalism" (1999) as a point of departure to consider today's critical issues that anthropology should address in the production of future ethnographic accounts of environmentalism.

Workshopping Caro and Nikhil’s book chapters.

Perry World House, Room 108

For the last EnviroLab meeting for the semester we will have Dr. Michael Hathaway discuss the modalities of attraction within multispecies world-making.

At the third EnviroLab meeting for the semester, we will be workshopping an article by

Amrita Kurian

At this second EnviroLab meeting for the semester, we will be workshopping a thesis chapter by Indivar Jonnalagadda.

The first EnviroLab meeting for the semester will be on 27th January, 2023, from 3 to 5 pm. We will have Dr. Justin Dunnavant telling us about his work on maroon geographies and countermapping. We will also workshop his work-in-progress piece titled "Dismantling(s): settler cosmotechnics and arts of closure on the Upper Mississippi River" during the meeting.