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".
“All Models are Wrong, but How Wrong Can we Let Them Be?”, A Talk by Prof. Kathleen Morrison
Professor Kathleen Morrison visits EnviroLab to present work from her phenomenal Land Cover 6K Project.
Presentation Title: “All Models are Wrong, but How Wrong Can we Let Them Be? Anthropology, Archaeology, and Anthropogenic Landcover Change Models”
This presentation is in-person and open to the public. Join us from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in Penn Museum Room 328!
Jerry C. Zee discusses his New Book: Continent in Dust
Friday, February 11, 2022
12:00 PM 1:30 PM
Penn Museum Academic Wing Room 345
3260 South StreetPhiladelphia, PA, 19104United States (map)
Monthly EnviroLab: WIP by Jane Robbins Mize
The fourth EnviroLab meeting of the semester. EnviroLab Member Jane Robbins Mize will workshop an article draft with the group.
“All Models are Wrong, but How Wrong Can we Let Them Be?”, A Talk by Prof. Kathleen Morrison
Professor Kathleen Morrison visits EnviroLab to present work from her phenomenal Land Cover 6K Project.
Presentation Title: “All Models are Wrong, but How Wrong Can we Let Them Be? Anthropology, Archaeology, and Anthropogenic Landcover Change Models”
This presentation is in-person and open to the public. Join us from 1 to 2 pm in Penn Museum Room 345!
SAC-CASI Virtual Book Discussion with Author Saumya Roy
South Asia Center and Center for the Advanced Study of India present
Saumya Roy discusses her book Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai
In conversation with:
Shireen Mirza, Indraprashta Institute of Information Technology
Ishani Saraf, University of California - Davis
Moderated by:
Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-with-saumya-roy-tickets-205236988357o
Monthly EnviroLab: Works-in-Progress by Rebecca, Tayeba, and Adwaita
At this third EnviroLab meeting for the year, we will be workshopping Rebecca Winkler and Tayeba Batool’s respective project proposals. We will also be workshopping a conference presentation by Adwaita Banerjee.
Monthly EnviroLab: On More-than-Human Imagination
We are looking forward to our second meeting of the year! This meeting we will be discussing two exciting articles: first, “Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation“ by Sophie Chao and Dion Enari; and second, “Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology“ by John Hartigan Jr. We will also be finalizing the Theme/Abstract for the year!