Air's Substantiations. This talk considers some of the acts and practices through which air has become a meaningful, knowable, and eventful substance in Hong Kong — as a medical fact, as a bodily engagement, as an international index, and as a medium of social difference. Tracking the activities of air as it moves across the edges, distinguish...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Choy, Timothy
Created:
2010-04-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Air's Substantiations. This talk considers some of the acts and practices through which air has become a meaningful, knowable, and eventful substance in Hong Kong — as a medical fact, as a bodily engagement, as an international index, and as a medium of social difference. Tracking the activities of air as it moves across the edges, distinguish...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Choy, Timothy
Created:
2010-04-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context. This presentation explores the questions of law, justice, and animals (both human and non-human) by recontextualizing current legal doctrine in the framework of biopolitics and biophilosophy. Moving from the rights philosophy of Peter Singer and others, to critiques of the rights framework by Co...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolfe, Cary
Created:
2008-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context. This presentation explores the questions of law, justice, and animals (both human and non-human) by recontextualizing current legal doctrine in the framework of biopolitics and biophilosophy. Moving from the rights philosophy of Peter Singer and others, to critiques of the rights framework by Co...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolfe, Cary
Created:
2008-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Blaine Brownell talks to Peter Shea about his conception of sustainable architecture, and architectural opportunities after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brownell, Blaine
Created:
2011-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catherine Levesque talks to Peter Shea about her interest in art history, natural landscapes, and Dutch artists’ role in shaping a new vision of nature in the years around 1600.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Levesque, Catherine
Created:
2013-02-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christine Baeumler talks to Peter Shea about her formation as an artist, about work in East Palo Alto, in the Bruce Vento Nature Preserve, and as the artist-in-residence for two watershed districts in St. Paul, and also about a course she is teaching in spring 2013 with two colleagues, Kristine Miller and Valentine Cadieux, called "Slow Art and ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Baeumler, Christine
Created:
2012-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christopher Morris lives in Dallas, Texas, and is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of two books, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860, and The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Morris, Christopher
Created:
2015-04-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Civil Society. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Businesses...
Conevery Valencius is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she writes and teaches about U.S. environmental history, the history of science and medicine, and the American Civil War. Her recent projects have focused on the history of earthquakes and seismology, the history of the environmental sciences, a...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Valencius, Conevery
Created:
2015-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dean Abrahamson talks to Peter Shea about the ongoing problems at the Fukushima nuclear powerplant following the earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Abrahamson; Dean
Created:
2011-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Deborah L. Swackhamer studies the processes affecting the behavior of, and exposures to, toxic chemicals in the environment and works on policies to address these potential risks. She is a Professor of Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and served as Co-director of the Water Resources C...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Swackhamer, Deborah
Created:
2015-07-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Douglas Ewart talks to Peter Shea about some motivations behind his Spark Festival project, such as the importance of active play for young people, and the environmental damage of contemporary society.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ewart, Douglas
Created:
2009-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Emma is a writer based in Klamath Falls, Oregon whose work focuses on complex intersections between conservation, ecology, energy, agriculture, food, language, books and film. Her stories help us understand how to increase the flourishing of both humanity and the rest of the planet’s species, and how to move towards a greener, wilder, happier ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marris, Emma
Created:
2015-04-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Environmental Humanities on the Schuylkill River: From Botanical Garden and Oil Refinery to DataRefuge. Bethany Wiggin is the Founding Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Her research interests lie in the intersections between the early modern period and contemporary theoretical concerns, including global and transnational ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wiggin, Bethany
Created:
2017-03-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
