Multimedia | interviews and talks
Being in the Air: An Intellectual and Aesthetic History of Climate
This animated short film taps into the deep pain of the pandemic, experienced by millions of people all over the world.
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Cryptids and Disasters: Serpents and a Werewolf in the Western Indian Ocean Region
In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.
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Making Rain under the Mallas
Nepalese manuscripts on rainmaking rituals offer data on droughts in historical climate reconstructions.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Dismantling the Machine: Modern Technology as Magic”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Alf Hornborg.
Multimedia | journal article
“Deadly Affairs: An Art Exhibition about Toxicity”
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“How Computer and Board Games Mediate Climate Change”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Péter Makai.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“The Ghost Dance Movement”
Louis Warren on “The Ghost Dance Movement.”
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Philippe-Sirice Bridel, the Natural Landscape, and the Swiss National Sentiment
Philippe-Sirice Bridel’s youthful diary synthesizes the political and aesthetic issues related to nature, showing the environmental sensibility of the time.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Martin Puchner, author of Literature for a Changing Planet
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Martin Puchner is interviewed on his recent book, Literature for a Changing Planet .
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Sight and Sound: Beyond the Huia Extinction Story
Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.