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Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change”
Adriana Petryna, professor and director of the M.D.-Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will present “Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change” via Zoom — click here to join.
Climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time based on established patterns. Rapidly faltering projections are colliding with the dangerous realities of emergency response, particularly to wildfires. Petryna will explore the climate future in terms of horizoning, a mode of thinking that considers natural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people can still act.
Petryna is the second speaker in the Spring 2022 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).
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