HOTB 2020 Activists and Artists Gallery
HUMANITIES ON THE BRINK: ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, EMERGENCY
AN ASLE-SPONSORED NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE
Academic/Activist Gallery
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Dominic Boyer, Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and author of the duograph Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene from Duke University Press.
Saskia Cornes, Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University.
Ashley Dawson, Professor of English at the City University of New York and author of Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change from Verso Books.
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel.
Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of Ecosphere Studies at the Land Institute, Salina, Kansas.
Sarah Jacquette Ray, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University and author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet.
Q & A
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Aubrey,
I like your “near-term resilience” in caring for perennial prairie plants. That definitely helps me stay grounded these days, too. The compass plant–a different silphium if I’m not mistaken–just started blooming here a few days ago. So dramatic!