Thursday, November 7, 2024 12:30pm to 2:00pm
About this Event
Fifth Ave at Bigelow, Pittsburgh, 15213
Hosted by the Humanities Center and co-teaching fellows, Gretchen Bender and Mark Collins. Respondents include Delanie Jenkins from Studio Arts and Nicole Heller, Associate Curator of Anthropocene Studies for Carnegie Museum of Natural History. This event will be hybrid, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as you prefer.
Our co-teaching fellows have designed a course that first addresses global climate crisis by focusing on the local and the personal, while then bridging scientific method and art-making practices. They focus on strategies for listening, observing, thinking, and acting that respond to the messiness of conflicting needs and unforeseen consequences. They will help students move between objective evidence and affective potential, instrumentalization and imagination, critical skepticism and hope – all of which are inherent to the practicing and personal lives of scientists and artists as humans. Bender and Collins are eager to hear responses to their materials and gather suggestions for assigned resources, class activities, and projects.
Precirculated material for this colloquium will be available here about two weeks prior and up to the event.
Please let us know if you require an accommodation in order to participate in this event. Accommodations may include live captioning, ASL interpreters, and/or captioned media and accessible documents from recorded events. At least 5 days in advance is recommended.