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Date: April 18, 2024 11:45am EDT
Speaker: Joanna Dean
Bio: Joanna Dean is an associate professor at Carleton University where she teaches environmental history, climate history and animal history. In 2023 she convened a series of lectures by leading historians on climate. She has published widely on the history of street trees and urban woodlands, and she is currently working on an environmental history of lovers walk on the parliamentary slopes.
Abstract: Until recently, the climate crisis has been the domain of science and scientists. Now humanities scholars are stepping up. New interdisciplinary courses, centres, journals and programs are appearing. Joanna Dean has been teaching climate history for many years, initially as a component of an environmental history course and now as a core course in Carleton University’s new minor in Environmental and Climate Humanities. She will argue that the humanities do more than improve communication about climate, they further our understanding of the ways we frame narratives and interpret data. She will also reflect on how teaching climate has broadened her thinking as a historian to encompass deep time and imagined futures.
Zoom Registration: Please register in advance for this meeting.
Speaker: Joanna Dean
Bio: Joanna Dean is an associate professor at Carleton University where she teaches environmental history, climate history and animal history. In 2023 she convened a series of lectures by leading historians on climate. She has published widely on the history of street trees and urban woodlands, and she is currently working on an environmental history of lovers walk on the parliamentary slopes.
Abstract: Until recently, the climate crisis has been the domain of science and scientists. Now humanities scholars are stepping up. New interdisciplinary courses, centres, journals and programs are appearing. Joanna Dean has been teaching climate history for many years, initially as a component of an environmental history course and now as a core course in Carleton University’s new minor in Environmental and Climate Humanities. She will argue that the humanities do more than improve communication about climate, they further our understanding of the ways we frame narratives and interpret data. She will also reflect on how teaching climate has broadened her thinking as a historian to encompass deep time and imagined futures.
Zoom Registration: Please register in advance for this meeting.