How to practice care for others elsewhere at a time when the needs of human and non-human kin are dismissed so readily? With stories from the United States and other places beyond, this talk will explore ways of resuscitating our collective capacity for ecological imagination.

Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, and A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times. Anand also serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on the global fight to build a zero waste future, anchored in stories from the United States, India, Ghana, and Spain.