PPEH offers 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 2023 Sessions
Wednesday, February 1
Dr. Rachel Cypher, Do Cattle Make Forests? An Investigation into Indigenous Ranching in Argentine Pampas
Wednesday, March 1
Deputy Director Adriane Alicea with Dr. Mel Lewis, Green 2.0: Addressing Inequality in the Environmental Sector
Wednesday, March 15
Dr. David Pellow: Environmental Justice and Carceral Institutions
Wednesday, March 22
Romana Bund: Extinct Mermaids. Myth-making in the Anthropocene
Wednesday, March 29
Dr. Melody Jue: Holding Sway: Sustainability and the Photomedia of Seaweeds
Wednesday, April 5
Dr. Breena Holland: From Performative Participation to Political Power
Wednesday, April 12
Cecilia González Godino: Unsovereign Elements: Geological Poetics in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean and its Diaspora
Wednesday, April 19
Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo: Subterranean Archives: The Epistemic Violence of Henequén Haciendas and their Erasure of the Subterranean Worlds in Yucatán, México
Wednesday, May 3
Chairperson Zulene Mayfield with Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro, Widening the 'Circle': Growing Youth Environmental Justice Leadership in Chester
Fall 2022 Sessions
Wednesday, October 5
Dr. Isabel Lane, Products of Our Environment: Abolition and Nature in Prison
Wednesday, October 19
Jane Robbins Mize, Imagining Alternative Environments: A Products of our Environment Workshop
Wednesday, October 26
2022 Ecotopian Toolmakers
Wednesday, November 2
Dr. Rebecca Macklin and Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Intersecting Energy Cultures Working Group
Wednesday, November 16
Special Sessions in conjunction with Annual Topic Anthropos-Not-Seen and Rights of Nature
Spring 2022 Sessions
Wednesday, January 26
Dr. Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania, Poldergeist: Using Animated Video to Help the Netherlands Confront Accelerated Sea Level Rise
Wednesday, February 2
Dr. Mel Lewis, Maryland Institute College of Art / American Rivers, Ecosystems, Sustainability, and Justice: Program Building and Pedagogical Approaches for Artists and Makers
Wednesday, March 2
Dr. Salma Monani, Gettysburg College, The Potentials and Challenges of Digitally Mapping Indigenous Presence
Wednesday, March 16
Dr. Davy Knittle and Dr. Martin Premoli, Grant Writing Workshop
Wednesday, April 2
Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro, Swarthmore College, Kinning as Environmental Justice Praxis
Wednesday, April 20
Nilus Team with Dr. Kristina Lyons, Sustainable Technology to Address Climate Change & Water Scarcity in Chile
Fall 2021 Sessions
Wednesday, September 15
Pooja Nayak, PPEH Dissertation Completion Fellow, Multispecies Relations and the Limits of Care in South India
Wednesday, September 22
Dr. Nandita Badami, PPEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Surfaces and Solar Farms: Experimenting with Epistemologies of Justness
Wednesday, October 6
Dr. Roy Scranton, University of Notre Dame, Killing the Messenger: Challenges in Climate Change Communication
Wednesday, October 20
Dr. Saskia Cornes and Lila Bhide, Penn Park Farm and Duke Campus Farm
Wednesday, November 17
Dr. Sheila Tripathy, Harvard University, From Home to Community to City: Approaches to Air Monitoring across Philadelphia
Wednesday, December 8
Dr. Gwen Ottinger, Drexel University, Epistemic Aspects of Environmental Justice
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"
Wednesday, February 17
My Climate Story team, PPEH, "My Climate Storytelling Workshop"
Wednesday, February 24
My Climate Story team, PPEH, "My Climate Story Feedback Session with PPEH Grad Fellows"
Wednesday, March 17
Ana María Leon and Andrew Herscher, "Research Publics and Counter-publics”
Wednesday, April 07
Miranda Mote, "Writing Botanical Stories: Pressing, Printing and Writing with Plants from the Biopond"
Wednesday, April 14
Jane Robbins Mize, "On the Muck: Zora Neale Hurston and the South Florida Swamps"
Wednesday, April 21
Jared Farmer, Franca Trubiano, Public Research Intern Teams: "Petrosylvania and From Petrol to Plastics -Re-powering People at Home"
Wednesday, April 28
Santiago Cunial
Wednesday, May 5
Davy Knittle and Andrew Niess, "The Philadelphia Area Environmental Justice Curriculum Hub Development Session"
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"