Talk by Dr. Megnaa Mehtta
Retreat or Remain? Understanding Notions of Risk, a “Full Life” and a “Slow Death” from the Sundarbans Coastlines.
Talk by Professor Juanita Sundberg
"Listening to Sargassum beyond the Sargasso Sea: Multispecies Storytelling and Seaweed Blooms in the Mexican Caribbean.”
Location: Blank Forum, PCPSE, 133 36th Street, Philadelphia
Talk by Professor Lalitha Kamath
“Dushkal Temporalities: Reframing Time in Planning for the Climate Crisis”
A Talk by Lalitha Kamath, Professor, Centre for Urban Policy & Governance, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; CASI Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 12:00
Location: Center for the Advanced Study of India Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics 133 South 36th Street, Suite 230 Philadelphia PA 19104-6215
Workshopping Grant Applications with Vivian, Nippun, and Clara
Location: Perry World House, Classroom 108
Book Talk: Lisa Yin Han, Pitzer College
Location: Room 500, Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut Street
Stories of Climate Action: Framing and Fabricating Futures in Mumbai
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
Conversation with Professor Elizabeth Povinelli
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
Film Screening: Karrabing Film Collective
The Family & the Zombie (2021, 30 mins)
Night Fishing with Ancestors (2023, 25 minutes) - trailer
Location TBA
2024 Penn EnviroLab Graduate Conference
Penn EnviroLab’s interdisciplinary graduate conference will gather a community of graduate students and faculty from March 22-23, 2024 to consider how (and what modes of) elemental thinking can inform our work across varying matters and geographies of concern.
Register here.
Internal Workshop
We will be reading and workshopping chapters from Becca and Xiao, followed by a happy hour at Louie Louie.
Penn Museum Rm 329
Muddy Waters: Reimagining Futures in Wet Asia
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.
Conversation with Marcy Norton
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).
Mock AAA presentations
Workshop for lab members to practice their AAA talks. Please let Pablo or Vivian know if you have something to share.
In Conversation with Andrea Ballestero and Radhika Govindrajan
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.
Works in progress by Carolina and Nikhil
Workshopping Caro and Nikhil’s book chapters.
Perry World House, Room 108
Mushroom(ing) Attractions: A Discussion with Dr. Michael Hathaway
For the last EnviroLab meeting for the semester we will have Dr. Michael Hathaway discuss the modalities of attraction within multispecies world-making.
Monthly Envirolab: WIP by Amrita Kurian
At the third EnviroLab meeting for the semester, we will be workshopping an article by
Amrita Kurian
Paper Workshop: Indivar
At this second EnviroLab meeting for the semester, we will be workshopping a thesis chapter by Indivar Jonnalagadda.
Furrowed with fugitive memories: The Sea as Archive---A Discussion with Dr. Justin Dunnavant
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.
Visit with Sophie Chao
At this public event, we will discuss Prof. Sophie Chao’s multimodal practice, as well as her recent books In the Shadow of the Palms and The Promise of Multispecies Justice
Internal workshopping session
At this meeting we will workshop members’ grant applications and articles-in-progress
Object exchange and visit from Raju Chalwadi
At this meeting we will be reviewing the work of Fulbright scholar Raju Chalwadi, a doctoral candidate in Sociology in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay). We will also be doing an “object exchange” to share objects we are thinking with and build community amongst members.
Internal workshopping session
At this meeting we will workshop members’ Wenner Gren grant applications
Internal Workshopping Session
At this meeting we workshopped Becca Winkler’s presentation on her preliminary fieldwork data
"Dismantling(s): Settler cosmotechnics and arts of closure on the Upper Mississippi river,” A Workshop with Prof. Bruce Braun
The next EnviroLab meeting on 1st April, 2022, will be from 1 to 2 pm. We will have Professor Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) visiting to workshop an exciting work-in-progress piece titled "Dismantling(s): settler cosmotechnics and arts of closure on the Upper Mississippi River".