This fall, PPEH will offer a new lunch series, Working Wednesdays, designed to showcase in-progress Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) straddling theoretical and practical environmental concerns with a focus on our mid-Atlantic region. These sessions take place on Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30 sharp.
All sessions are open to the Penn community but require RSVP. Grab a lunch and join us!
Spring 2021 Sessions
Wednesday, January 27
Dr. Marcy Rockman, ICOMOS Scientific Coordinator & Co-chair, IPCC Project, "Every Place Has a Climate Story"
Wednesday, February 3
Davy Knittle and Andrew Niess, University of Pennsylvania, "The Philadelphia Area Environmental Justice Curriculum Hub"
Fall 2020 Sessions
Wednesday, September 30
Dr. Katie Faull, Bucknell University, "Telling the Multilayered Stories of the Susquehanna"
Wednesday, October 28
Chet Pancake, Temple University, "Gender Identity, Eco-Activism, and Embodiment on the Mountain Valley Pipeline"
Wednesday, December 2
Joshua Moses, Haverford College
Spring 2020 Sessions
Wednesday, January 22
April Anson, "Whose Public? Whose Lands? Race, Nature, and the Genres of Possession in American Literature" (Mock Job Talk)
**Friday, January 24, Williams 616
Ben Mendelsohn, "Mediating the Global Urban Coast: Digital and Sedimentary Ecologies in Lagos and New York" (Mock Job Talk)
Wednesday, January 29
Martin Premoli, "Drought, Development, and Narrative Form in the Global Anglophone Novel" (Mock Job Talk)
Wednesday, February 5, Williams 616
Shoots & Sprouts: Seed Fund Project Presentations
Herman Beavers & Suzana Berger, Re-imagining "August Wilson and Beyond"
Daniel Barber, Habit | Habitat Workshop
Wednesday, February 12
Shoots & Sprouts: Seed Fund Project Presentations
Britt Dahlberg & colleagues, Living With Toxicity: Students Co-Creating New Public Engagement
Wednesday, February 19
Shoots & Sprouts: Seed Fund Project Presentations
Byron Sherwood: Seeing the Invisible: Bringing the Microbiomes of the Schuylkill River and Cobbs Creek to the People
Gina Chang (on behalf of Jennifer Pinto-Martin & Michael Weisberg): Human Ecology of the Galápagos
Wednesday, February 26, Williams 616
Shoots & Sprouts: Seed Fund Project Presentations
Erol Akcay: Cultural evolution, social networks, and sustainable natural resource use in Vezo fishers of SW Madagascar
Kristina Lyons: Rivers Have Memory: Community Recovery of a Watershed in Times of Conflict and Transition
Wednesday, March 4
Anne Berg, "A Rubbished World"
Wednesday, March 18
Nancy Lee Roane, "Energy Narratives and Extractive Logics Undone: Radical Mediation in Recent Brazilian Cinema"
Wednesday, March 25
Alex Chen, "Care under Biocontainment: Preparing American Healthcare Infrastructure for Emerging Diseases"
Wednesday, April 1
Nicole Welk-Joerger, "The Mantra of Feed Efficiency: Measuring Sustainable Livestock Operations in the Climate Crisis"
Wednesday, April 8
Aylin Malcolm, "Like a Sturgeon"
Wednesday, April 15
Simon Richter and Adin Mbuh, "Kampung Resilience and the Arts: Semarang, Indonesia and the Work of Kolektif Hysteria”
Wednesday, April 29
Knar Gavin, "A Trick of the Heartland: Those Wilder Messes 'Behind the Khaki of the Scouts' in Yedda Morrison’s Girl Scout Nation"
Fall 2019 Sessions
Wednesday, September 11
Michael Weisberg & Ernesto Vaca, "Community Science and Social Change in the Galapagos”
Wednesday, October 2
Kristina Lyons, "Rivers and Reconciliation: Reconstructing Environmental Memory in Times of Conflict and Transition"
(stop by Williams 602 or email arenberg@sas.upenn.edu for a copy of the paper)
Wednesday, October 23
Emily Steiner, “Encyclopedic Style: Natural History and English Prose c. 1400"
*Thursday, November 7
Nikhil Anand & Bethany Wiggin, "After Rising Waters"
Wednesday, November 20
Rahul Mukherjee, "Wireless Saturation"
Wednesday, December 4
Karen M'Closkey, "GEO-visualization"