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Conversation with IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, Dr. Lisa Schipper

Join us on March 29 for a conversation with Dr. Lisa Schipper, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author on Climate Change Adaptation. Dr. Schipper is a Senior Professor of Development Geography at the University of Bonn. Her research focuses on the interface of climate change and development research. Event is open to IDCE students. Lunch will be […]

Beyond Apocalypse: Imagining Climate Futures

Professor Ursula K. Heise, UCLA   Novelists, journalists, film directors and artists have created fictional and nonfictional stories about anthropogenic climate change for the last fifty years. The majority of these stories focus on scenarios of large-scale disaster and end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, with cities under water as a prominent motif. Such stories have been criticized for scientific […]

Geography Colloquium: Catherine Nakalembe, University of Maryland

NASA Harvest Africa Program: Advancing the Use of Earth Observations and Machine Learning for Agriculture Monitoring for Food Security in Africa Global food security is predicated on identifying sustainable production systems that can adapt to and mitigate climate change. Regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 60% of the population are smallholder farmers, are particularly […]

Marsh Institute Seminar: HIV Prevention for Young Women in Zimbabwe

Economics professor Jon Denton Schneider will discuss his research on whether Zimbabwe’s school-based deworming interventions also reduce girls’ chances of contracting HIV as young women and if that, in turn, could have an effect on marriage market matching.

Community in Action: Climate Change and Puerto Rico

During this conversatorio, faculty will will explore the various dimensions of Puerto Rico’s complex relationship with the United States and the Americas in a range of areas, from climate change to government neglect.

Fall 2022 Symposium on the Environmental Humanities

Join us as we bring together three leading scholars on climate change to present Animal Affects, Absences, and Planetary Politics, our Fall 2022 Symposium on the Environmental Humanities. Cajetan Iheka, Ph.D., African Ecological Storytelling: Relationality as Method Cajetan Iheka is Professor of English at Yale University. His books include Africa Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics […]