Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies (2018–23)
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Note: the Nature–Culture–Sustainability master’s program is no longer active. The following is an archive of events from 2018–23.
Past events
Dilip da Cunha |
Where does decolonizing begin?
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Xiangli Ding |
A Flow of Water and Power: On intersections of nature, technology, and political changes in modern Chinese history
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Elizabeth Maynard |
Moving With/Moving Through: On radical interdisciplinarity and generous approaches to embodied teaching and learning
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Alero Akporiaye |
On political risk, oil politics, and corporate social responsibility
Casey Merkle |
How do you define the watershed? Working and playing with watersheds to bridge public perspectives
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Alexandra Ionescu |
Between a Bookshelf and a Pond
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Anthony Acciavatti |
Conversations in Contemporary Design: Seeing Like a Mudskipper
Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
Lorén Spears |
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Justice
Sunita Narain |
Global warming in an unequal world
Kerri Arsenault & Tory Stephens |
Environmental Storytelling
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Nick Estes |
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save the Planet
Chinese Film Series |
Behemoth
Harini Nagendra |
Is Sustainability Universal? The influence of place and context on sustainability
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Kali Akuno |
Building a People-Led Just Transition in Jackson, Mississippi Black Liberation, Workers Co-Operatives and the Solidarity Economy
Chinese Film Series |
Plastic China
Chinese Film Series |
Blind Mountain
Todd Levon Brown |
Architecture, Environmental Semiotics & Socioracial Perception: Meaning-making In Gentrified Space
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Peter McCoy |
Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working with Fungi
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La Resistencia |
Art, Activism, and Accessibility
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Danielle Purifoy |
Environmental Racism: An Origin Story
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Ian Madrigal |
"Cause"-Play: Creative Activism to Dismantle Corporate Power and White Supremacy
Shalanda Baker |
Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
DeLesslin George-Warren |
Food, Language, and Land-based Education in the Catawba Nation
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endawnis Spears & Cassius Spears, Jr. |
Indigenous Landscapes: Narragansett Homeland & History
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Julian Agyeman |
Just Sustainabilities in Policy, Planning and Practice
Kate Fletcher |
Design and Nature: A Partnership
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Gideon Kossoff |
Transition Design: A Conversation on Social Ecology and the Past/Present and Future of Transition Design
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Myles Lennon |
Antiracist Praxis for Post-Carbon Energy Transitions after COVID-19: Thinking with Black Lives Matter and against Michael Moore's “Planet of the Humans”
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Francisco Guevara |
How Do We Move From Here? Art Practices in Time and Space
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Liberal Arts Brown Bag Cocktail Hour |
In Conversation with Yuriko Saito + Dan Cavicchi
Liberal Arts Brown Bag Cocktail Hour |
The Joy, Pleasures and Pain of Academic Research
Climate Futures II |
Design Politics, Design Natures, Aesthetics and the Green New Deal
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Race and Environment in the United States |
African American & Native American Perspectives
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NCSS Visiting Scholar: Carolyn Finney |
A Discussion of "Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationships of African Americans to the Great Outdoors"
6th Biennial Design Science Symposium |
Inclusive Narratives from Nature
Lynne Cooke |
Contesting Borders: Interchanges between Uncredentialed Artists and American Vanguards
Kader Attia |
On repair
Ed Schlossberg |
Art|Design|Life
Leah Penniman |
Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice
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Designs for the Pluriverse |
A book discussion with Arturo Escobar
Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures |
A talk by Arturo Escobar
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Coastal Futures and the Green New Deal with Hillary Brown
Decolonizing Design, Repair and Mapping Indigenous Futures |
A conversation with Tristan Schultz
Producing Environmental Ignorance: The Case of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) |
A talk by Dr. Lauren Richter
Eating Grief: Environmental History of Agricultural and Food Justice |
A talk by Dr. Claudia Ford
Making Meaning from a Fragmented Past: 1897 and the Creative Process |
A talk by Dr. Peju Layiwola
Living with Water and Stone: Urban Adaptation Beyond Green Redevelopment |
A talk by Dr. Ursula Lang
Upwellings: Epi-stemic field-making in the wake of socio-ecological crisis |
A talk by Apollonya Porcelli
Catchment Management in the Densu River Basin, Ghana: Implications for coping mechanisms in rural communities |
A talk by Dr. Michael Eduful
The Ocean's Skin |
A talk by Philip Hoare
Wartime Mobilisation and Rapid Climate Change
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Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition Symposium
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Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale
Silver Memorial Lecture: Paola Antonelli
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Kirloskar Lecture and Panel Discussion | Asim Waqif |
Strategies for Disruption
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Design for the Real World Today: A Panel Discussion on Victor Papanek’s Design Manifesto and its Legacy
Victor Papanek: Design, Ecology, and Global Activism
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Jesse Jenkins |
Getting to Zero: What it will take to decarbonize electricity
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Displacement: People, Culture and Design Practice |
A presentation and response to life lived in an age of reconfigurations
