Event

This year's, inaugural, environmental history workshop will take place at Penn on
March 22 under the theme of “Divergent Environmentalism.” It asks scholars to consider
the ways in which both state and non-state actors have appropriated and deployed the
language of climate, conservation, and environmentalism to both create and preserve spaces
defined primarily by entrenched power structures, including exclusions and segregation based
on race, class, religion, and/or ethnicity. Our keynote presenter, the Philadelphia-based poet
and environmental activist, Misty Sol, will invite participants to think more capaciously about the
relationships between human and nonhuman actors in a poetic, embodied performance. The
events are open to the entire University community.

Divergent Environmentalism 

Date: March 22

Time: 12 - 7pm

Location: College Hall 209

Sponsors: School of Arts & Sciences, Penn History, Environmental Innovations Initiative, History and Sociology of Science, and Wolf Humaities

For access to pre-circulated papers please email anneberg@sas.upenn.edu. 

Misty Sol, Keynote Artist

Program

Introduction and discussion, 12 - 1pm

Panel one, 1:15 - 2:45pm

Panel two, 3 - 4:30pm

Wrap-up conversation, 4:30 - 5pm

Keynote: Misty Sol presenting 'Quilting Bees', 6 - 7pm