Except when noted, all meetings are at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), located on the 4th floor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at 26 Oxford Street.

Thursday, September 20, 12:00-2:00pm

Welcome and Introductions
 

Thursday, October 4, 12:00-2:00pm

Walden’s Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an Environmental Classic
Eric Slauter (Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)

Thursday, October 18, 12:00-2:00pm

What about Expertise?: Climate Change, Territory, and the Global South

Sarah E. Vaughn (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley)

Thursday, November 1, 12:00-2:00pm

Democracy Electric: Energy Cooperatives and Economic Citizenship in the early Twentieth-Century United States
Abby Spinak (Lecturer, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)

Thursday, November 29, 12:00-2:00pm

Working the Tides: Pawangs, Fishers, and Scientists in the Straits of Melaka, 1870-1970

Anthony Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, HUCE/Department of History, Harvard University)

Thursday, December 6, 12:00-2:00pm

The Town, the Country, and Environmental Change in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Philip Deloria (Professor, Department of History, Harvard University)