Join us at the Glasscock Center on December 6th & 7th for this exploratory forum and contribute your ideas to our newest initiative!
In a world of climate change and the Anthropocene, pressing global issues concerning environmental and intergenerational justice, nature-society relationships, more-than-human ethics, and coastal and island communities – among many others – call upon the critical methods of the humanities, as well as perspectives from the social and natural sciences. As a new Glasscock Center initiative, Humanities: Land Sea Space will catalyze innovative research across a variety of disciplines and contexts at Texas A&M and beyond, and contribute to current debates in the environmental humanities, blue/marine humanities, geohumanities, energy humanities, and public humanities. The aim of this forum is to explore research and ideas for the new initiative, Humanities: Land Sea Space.
For more information, visit: glasscock.tamu.edu/initiatives/hlss/
Thurs. Dec. 6
Location: 311 Glasscock Building
- 4:00-4:15
- Welcome | Dr. Emily Brady (Glasscock Center/Philosophy)
- 4:15-5:30
- “Epigenetic Life: At the Intersection of Postgenomics, Anthropocene & Deregulation”
Keynote | Dr. Becky Mansfield (Geography, Ohio State University)
- “Epigenetic Life: At the Intersection of Postgenomics, Anthropocene & Deregulation”
- 5:30-6:00
- Reception
Fri. Dec. 7
Location: 311 Glasscock Building
- 9:30-10:00
- “Sustainable Communities, Resilience, and Justice”
Dr. Phil Berke (Institute for Sustainable Communities)
- “Sustainable Communities, Resilience, and Justice”
- 10:00-10:30
- “A Multi-Method Investigation of American Evangelical Christians’ Environmental Attitudes”
Dr. Robin Globus Veldman (Religious Studies)
- “A Multi-Method Investigation of American Evangelical Christians’ Environmental Attitudes”
- 10:30-10:45
- Coffee Break
- 10:45-11:15
- “Occupying Nature: The Politics of the Environment in American Occupied Germany”
Douglas Bell (History)
- “Occupying Nature: The Politics of the Environment in American Occupied Germany”
- 11:15-11:45
- “Wild animals, ethics, and climate change”
Dr. Clare Palmer (Philosophy)
- “Wild animals, ethics, and climate change”
- 11:45-12:15
- “’Natural’ Identities in the Early Caribbean: Birthplace, Borders, and Loyalty on Land and at Sea”
Dr. April Hatfield (History)
- “’Natural’ Identities in the Early Caribbean: Birthplace, Borders, and Loyalty on Land and at Sea”
- 12:15-1:30
- Lunch
- Lunch
- 1:30-3:30
- Roundtable Discussion and Q&A
- Dr. Christian Brannstrom (Geography)
- Dr. Jessica Howell (Glasscock Center/English)
- Dr. Becky Mansfield
- Dr. Clare Palmer
- Dr. Pam Plotkin (Sea Grant/Oceanography)
- Roundtable Discussion and Q&A
Free and open to the public.
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