Below is the most current version of the symposium schedule. Please direct questions to nathan.hensley@georgetown.edu. All events are free and open to the public; for more information on venues, click the link here.
Schedule of Events
[Ongoing: Public Sculpture Installation, Evan Reed et al., Anthropocene Core Sample 1, 2 & 3, Healey Family Student Center]
[Ongoing: Digital Art Exhibition, In Nature’s Wake: Photographs by Garth Lenz and Victoria Sambunaris, organized by Mike Osborne, Healey Family Student Center]
Tuesday, March 24
11 am: In Nature’s Wake: Opening Remarks and Welcome Ceremony
Copley Formal Lounge
Carolyn Forché , Georgetown
Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown
Native American Student Council, Georgetown
11:15 am: Winona LaDuke: “On Honoring the Earth”
Presentation / Discussion
Copley Formal Lounge
[Lunch on your own]
2:30 pm: Rebecca Solnit: “Hope is a Form of Resistance”
Introduction: Jennifer Natalya Fink, Georgetown
Talk / Reading, 25 minutes
Copley Formal Lounge
3:00 pm: Landscape and Ecocide
Artist presentations / conversation
Copley Formal Lounge
Introduction: Mike Osborne, Georgetown
Victoria Sambunaris: 20 minutes (artist presentation)
Garth Lenz: 20 minutes (artist presentation)
Rebecca Solnit, in conversation and public Q & A (20 minutes)
5:30 pm: Nature Poetry After Nature
Reading / Conversation
Copley Formal Lounge
Introduction: Mark McMorris & Carolyn Forche
Juliana Spahr
Robert Hass
Following: Public Reception
[Dinner on your own]
Wednesday, March 25
10:30 am: How to Think in the Anthropocene
Position Papers / Roundtable Discussion co-Sponsored by the Modernities Working Group
Copley Formal Lounge
Moderator: Patricia Vieira, Georgetown
Karen Pinkus, Cornell
Jennifer James, George Washington
Dana Luciano, Georgetown
Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins
12:30 pm: Lunch Provided for Symposium Participants
[12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch and Breakout Session: To Map a World Not Yet Born. Led by Nina Sherburne, GU Fossil Free. Lunch served. Open to the public by RSVP only to jw1192@georgetown.edu.
3:30 pm: What is to be Done?: A Roundtable on Action in the Current Crisis
Roundtable Conversation co-sponsored by the Center for Social Justice and Program in Justice and Peace
Copley Formal Lounge
Introduction and moderator: Randall Amster, Georgetown
Mike Tidwell, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Chris Williams, author, Ecology and Socialism
Rebecca Solnit, author and activist
Robert Hass, poet
Juliana Spahr, poet
5:30 pm: Reception for Symposium Participants and Invited Guests
7 pm: Lecture: Bill McKibben: “The End of Nature a Quarter Century After”
Gaston Hall
Following: Public Reception
Gaston Hall Foyer