Programs & Projects
Climate Change and the Humanities 2009-10
Thanks to generous funding from the Environmental Change Institute and the Office of Sustainability, the IPRH organized and hosted a 2009-10 lecture series focusing on humanities perspectives on climate change. The series featured scholars who brought a unique perspective to our understanding of the human dimensions and to the projected lived consequences of climate change as it is expected to progress in the coming decades. We were delighted to welcome these distinguished speakers to our campus, and encourage you to visit our Downloads section for audio and video archives of the series.
Please note that one speaker in the series, Jake Kosek (Associate Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley) had to cancel his planned spring-semester visit, and will reschedule his lecture for the fall semester 2010; details of this rescheduled lecture will be listed on our Calendar of Events.
Julia Cruikshank (Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America’s Far Northwest
Carolyn Merchant (Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy and Ethics, University of California, Berkeley), Melting Ice: Climate Change and the Humanities
Rob Nixon (Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin Madison), Slow Violence and the Drama Deficit of Climate Change
Andrew Light (Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Director of the Center for Global Ethics, George Mason University), Ethics and Climate Change
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IPRH and OLLI
The IPRH was delighted to launch its first year of collaboration with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) in 2009-10, and is pleased to continue this very productive relationship in the coming year. We are especially grateful to OLLI Director Kathleen Holden for her enthusiasm and encouragement as we embarked upon this new venture.
The OLLI program, with support from the Bernard Osher Foundation, is part of a national network that recognizes learning has no age limits. Through a rich array of lifelong learning opportunities, members are inspired to take a fresh look at themselves, their world, and the possibilities that await them.
Through OLLI, the IPRH offered a course in spring semester 2010, titled “A Major Link: Understanding Our World through Art and Culture.” Each course session was led by an IPRH staff member or Fellow, who presented their research on topics related to the IPRH annual theme of “Representation.” Presenters included Dianne Harris, Christine Catanzarite, Clarence E. Lang, Esther Kim Lee, Jennifer Lieberman, Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Richard T. Rodriguez, and Kirsten C. Uszkalo.
The IPRH will once again offer an OLLI course dedicated to the research of its Post-Doctoral and Faculty Fellows in the spring semester 2011; details on that course will be available later this fall. Senior Associate Director Christine Catanzarite will also teach an OLLI course in the fall semester on “Hollywood Films: The Golden Era.
