2016 Humanities Week Events
2016 HUMANITIES WEEK – “Humanities and the Natural World”
Friday, April 8, 2016
Washington State University – Roundtable
CUE 518, Noon (bring your own lunch)
Speakers:
Amanda Boyd, assistant professor, Murrow College of Communication
“Communicating Environmental Health Risks in the Arctic”
Patricia Glazebrook, professor and Chair, Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs
“Environmental Justice: Why Science needs Philosophy”
Kota Inoue, assistant professor, Foreign Languages and Cultures
“Ecocritical Reading of the Suburb: Reframing Colonialism from Japan“
Ayad Rahmani, associate professor, School of Design & Construction
“Designing for Life: Understanding Wright through Emerson”
Jeffrey Sanders, associate professor of History
“The Postwar Politics of Urban Environmental History”
Monday, April 11, 2016
University of Washington – Roundtable
Honors Hall Lounge, 5:30 p.m.
Speakers:
Linda Nash, John C. Smith professor of History
“Grounding Knowledge in the Anthropocene: A Historian’s Perspective“
Rich Watts, professor and Chair, French and Italian Studies
“The Water Crisis Across the Disciplines”
Sabine Wilke, professor of German
“How Sick is the Earth in German Literature and Culture?”
Jesse Oak Taylor, assistant professor of English
“Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times”