Environmental History Week, April 2022
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"From Disaster to Survival: Disability Histories"
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Eugene, Oregon (virtual)
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University of Delaware, April 2022
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"Geologic Bodies," Graduate Seminar Guest Lecture
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Department of English
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Degrowth Conference, August 2021
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"Poems in a Melting World"
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The Hague (virtual)
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ASLE, July 2021
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Emergent Disability Strategy: Tactics for a Melting World
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virtual
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"Sustainability Lab: A Pedagogical Approach to Humanities Labs," May 2021
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Villanova University (virtual)
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ASEH, April 2021
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"Urban Environmental Justice: Learning From and With Activists"
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(virtual)
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ESEH, February 2021
"Environmental Histories of Disabilities”
University of Bristol (virtual)
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American Philosophical Society, June 2020
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"Bad Data: Settlers Measuring Dust"
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Philadelphia, PA (virtuak)
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March 6 2020
Experimental Environments Symposium
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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ASAP, October 2018
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"Burning Up and Billowing Out: Sustaining Meteorological Climate Data"
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College Park, MD
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Endowed Lecture, April 2019
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"Data's Edge: From Weather Measurement to Disability Justice"
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Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
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ASEH Annual Meeting, April 2019
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"Disability and Environmental History"
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"Bad Data: Settlers Measuring Dust"
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Columbus, Ohio
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OAH Annual Meeting, April 4-6, 2019
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"Environmental Histories of non-Green Topics," Roundtable
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Philadelphia, PA
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Biosphere 2, February 2019
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Weather Data Across U.S. Timescales
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Tuscon, AZ
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New York Poetry Festival, July 2018
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Reading with Anomalous Press
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Governor's Island, NYC
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The Art of Losing: Information at its Edges, Fall 2017
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keywords: biodiversity, measurement, anthropocene, data, scientific capture
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“The art of losing isn't hard to master, / so many things seem filled with the intent / to be lost that their loss is no disaster,” writes Elizabeth Bishop in her poem “One Art.” In this colloquium, we will investigate the art of losing in the information age. When an object or a field of knowledge is transformed into information, what is captured and what is lost? What forms of matter resist informational capture and where exactly does that matter go? Is loss really, “no disaster?” From lossiness to forgotten or missing information, from dirty data and bad codes to histories of error, we will consider a range of scholarly work from across the environmental humanities, media history, and the history of science.
The final reading list will be developed in conversation with colloquium members, but may include N. Katherine Hayles’ “The Dream of Information” (from My Mother Was a Computer, 2005), Ursula K. Heise's “From Arks to ARKive.org: Database, Epic, and Biodiversity” (from Imagining Extinction, 2016), Kathleen D. Morrison's “Losing Primeval Forests: Degradation Narratives in South Asia,” (from Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, 2016), and excerpts from Elizabeth Lunbeck's Science without Laws (2007) and Jonathan Stern's MP3: The Meaning of Format (2012).
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This colloquium will meet four times throughout the spring semester at Penn State, University Park.
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Center for Humanities + Information, Fall 2017 Colloquium
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