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ROSEI Summit 2025
The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) is tentatively planning to host its next annual summit for sustainable energy research at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on January 15, 2025. Please check this page in the future for more updates about event. And feel free to click here and here to read about the previous two…
The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come
The Peale 225 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD, United StatesThe Future of Here is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present. Consider what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore we know now. What artifacts might people of that future time produce,…
Workshop: Build a Climate Dashboard
Carey School of Business 100 International Drive, Baltimore, MD, United StatesA web dashboard to visualize emissions from business travel is being developed as a Campus as a Living Lab research project to support the goals of Johns Hopkins' Climate Action and Sustainability Plan. You are invited to join a human-centered-design workshop where faculty and staff participants will chart a course for the dashboard to achieve positive change at the…
Jeffrey A. Grigg Memorial Lecture: Adaptation, Resilience, and Transformation: How can education contribute to thriving in a changing climate?
Glass PavilionClimate change is already shaping the lives of young people around the globe. How should education respond to climate change as a lived reality rather than a possible future? This talk outlines the practical, moral, and pedagogical reasons why it makes sense to focus on adaptation, resilience, and transformation (ART). It clarifies the challenges posed…
Futures in the Face of Ruin: An Environmental Humanities Conversation
The Peale 225 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD, United StatesWhat remains possible when so much seems to be coming apart at the seams? What does it mean to live in the shadow of the ruined promises of the past? Consider the many despoiled landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay and our Jones Falls and Patapsco watersheds: junk heaps, rotting piers, spoil basins, and the many…
What If Fungi Win? A Conversation with Dr. Arturo Casadevall
Bloomberg Center (DC) 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C., DC, United StatesFrom the delicious to the deadly, fungi—which share 50% of our DNA—present a wide range of benefits, and threats, to human health, many of which remain unexplored. Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them? Dr. Arturo Casadevall takes up this question and discusses his latest book, What If Fungi Win?, in conversation…
Language for a Future Present: A Makeshop, with Books
The Peale 225 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD, United StatesWhat might a language for the future – or for this very moment, shapeshifting as it is – look like when imagined from the bodies, experiences, desires, of the other-than-human world, as it stands and as it may yet be? Join this all-genre workshop to explore the materials of our local landscape and their possible…
From Sacred Brew to Global Commodity: Anthropology, Yerba Mate, and the Changing Geographies of Consumption
Mergenthaler 426The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Christine Folch (Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University), for her talk on the cultural history of Yerba Mate. From Sacred Brew to Global Commodity: Anthropology, Yerba Mate, and the Changing Geographies of Consumption Brewed from the dried leaves and…
In Defense of the Land: Against Eco- and Acoustic Colonialism in 21st Century Plurilingual Poetry of Abiayala
Gilman Hall 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, United StatesThe program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Valeria Meiller (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a lecture on IN DEFENSE OF THE LAND: AGAINST ECO- & ACOUSTIC COLONIALISM IN 21st CENTURY PLURILINGUAL POETRY OF ABIAYALA The environmental humanities have advanced persuasive arguments that explain…