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"Imagining Climate Change Futures"
University of Chicago
October 19, 2019
Patrick Jagoda, Professor in the Departments of English Language and Literature and Cinema and Media Studies and the College.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College.
Sarah Fredericks, Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics and Director of Doctoral Studies in the Divinity School.
Kristen Schilt, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Ashlyn Sparrow, Assistant Director of the Weston Game Lab at the Media Arts, Data, and Design Center.
Climate change has quickly become one of the most important and urgent issues of our time. This panel gathers humanities researchers who are seeking to better to understand and combat climate change. Patrick Jagoda (Cinema & Media Studies and English) moderates this multidisciplinary conversation of experts Dipesh Chakrabarty (South Asian Languages & Civilizations and History), Sarah Fredericks (Divinity School), Kristen Schilt (Sociology), and Ashlyn Sparrow (Weston Game Lab at the UChicago Media Arts, Data, and Design Center). In addition to their respective research projects, these panelists discuss their collaboration on the Terrarium project, which was designed for the incoming UChicago class of 2023 to address the futures of climate change across multiple media platforms.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to humanities@uchicago.edu.
"Imagining Climate Change Futures"
University of Chicago
October 19, 2019
Patrick Jagoda, Professor in the Departments of English Language and Literature and Cinema and Media Studies and the College.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College.
Sarah Fredericks, Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics and Director of Doctoral Studies in the Divinity School.
Kristen Schilt, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Ashlyn Sparrow, Assistant Director of the Weston Game Lab at the Media Arts, Data, and Design Center.
Climate change has quickly become one of the most important and urgent issues of our time. This panel gathers humanities researchers who are seeking to better to understand and combat climate change. Patrick Jagoda (Cinema & Media Studies and English) moderates this multidisciplinary conversation of experts Dipesh Chakrabarty (South Asian Languages & Civilizations and History), Sarah Fredericks (Divinity School), Kristen Schilt (Sociology), and Ashlyn Sparrow (Weston Game Lab at the UChicago Media Arts, Data, and Design Center). In addition to their respective research projects, these panelists discuss their collaboration on the Terrarium project, which was designed for the incoming UChicago class of 2023 to address the futures of climate change across multiple media platforms.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to humanities@uchicago.edu.
