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 St.

Friday, February 9, 12:00-3:00pm (Notes from Forum)

Publishing Forum – 12-2pm – Expert Wisdom – 2-3pm – Casual Conversation
Paul Sutter (Professor of History, University of Colorado)

Harriet Ritvo (Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT)

Edmund P. Russell (Professor of History, Boston University)

Lisa Brady (Professor of History, Boise State University)

Thursday, February 15, 4:00-5:30pm

Ecology, Extinction, and the End of the Second Pandemic: Plague in the Ottoman Empire
Nükhet Varlık (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University)

Thursday, March 8, 5:00-6:30pm

Resource Anxieties
Victor Seow (Assistant Professor, Harvard Department of the History of Science)

Thursday, March 29, 12:00-1:30pm

Shaky Ground: The Untold Story of the Largest Earthquake Surge in Modern History

Conevery Bolton Valencius (Professor of History, Boston College)

Anna Kuchment (Journalist, Dallas Morning News and Scientific American)

David Corcoran (Associate Director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program, and former editor of the New York Times “Science Times.”)

Wednesday, April 11, 12:00-1:30pm (**Science Center, room 252**)

Oceanic Development Policy, Climate Change, and Floating City Projects. The Ups and Downs of Oceanic Urbanization since the 1960s
Stefan Huebner (Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, hosted by Modern Sciences Working Group)

Thursday, April 12, 12:00-2:00pm

Reading from 12-1pm, with discussion to follow 1-2pm

Use, Misuse, and Earth Making

Environmental Poetry Pop-Up Series

Harvard University Center for the Environment and Poetry in America

Thursday, April 19, 12:00-1:30pm

An American Colony in 18th-century France: Les Nantuckois of Dunkirk and the Spread of Enlightened Illumination
Darrin M. McMahon (Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College)

Thursday, April 26, 12:00-2:00pm (**Science Center Plaza**)

Reading from 12-1pm, with discussion to follow 1-2pm

Wilderness, Conservation, and Environmental Activism

Environmental Poetry Pop-Up Series

Harvard University Center for the Environment and Poetry in America

Part of Harvard University's 2018 ARTS FIRST Festival