Northwestern Events Calendar

Jan
21
2016

Living with Climate Change: Will Paris Make a Difference? (with Dale Jamieson)

When: Thursday, January 21, 2016
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM CT

Where: Harris Hall, Room 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free and open to the public

Contact: Jill Mannor   (847) 467-3970

Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Dale Jamieson will cover recent and current climate change policy, with a focus on the potential impact of the November 2015 Conference of Parties in Paris.

Dale Jamieson is a professor of environmental studies and philosophy and affiliated professor of both law and bioethics at New York University. He is the author, most recently, of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed — and What It Means for Our Future, and the short story and essay collection Love in the Anthropocene, written with Bonnie Nadzam.

Presented by the Environmental Humanities Research Workshop of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. To join the Environmental Humanities listserve: please email corey.byrnes@northwestern.edu or keith.woodhouse@northwestern.edu

This event is made possible by generous support from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures, History, and English; the Programs in Asian Studies and Environmental Policy and Culture; and the Asian Studies Graduate Cluster.

 

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