BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Blue Lab - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Blue Lab X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://bluelabmedia.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Blue Lab REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T173000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20241008T185719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T215210Z UID:27033-1729612800-1729618200@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:"What We Can't Burn": A conversation with author Eve Driver DESCRIPTION:October 22 | 4:30-6:00 pmRobertson Hall\, Room 001 \nThe event is free and open to the public. To assist with food and drink planning\, please RSVP using this link \nJoin Blue Lab for a conversation with author Eve Driver about her captivating debut book\, co-authored with Tom Osborn\, What We Can’t Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future. The conversation will be moderated by Gemma Sahwell\, a PhD candidate in geoscience at Princeton and core member of the lab. \nFrom the book’s publisher: “Eve was a fossil fuel divestment activist from Massachusetts. Tom was a clean energy entrepreneur from a rural village in Kenya. They met as juniors at Harvard\, launching a journey in which their conflicting perspectives almost tore their unlikely friendship apart. Raw\, funny\, and lyrical\, What We Can’t Burn is a memoir in two voices about coming of age in a world confused and divided about how to save itself. Set in Kenya and then the US\, it is part travelogue\, part textbook\, part campus novel. It is a testament to the power of humor and friendship to help us find our place among the many currents of change-making that cut across the world today.” \n“Anyone who hopes to make a difference will be inspired by the story of Eve Driver and Tom Osborn’s honest\, courageous friendship.” -Michelle Nijhuis\, New York Review of Books \n  \n Eve Driver Gemma Sahwell URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/driver-book-event-2024/ LOCATION:Princeton University\, Robertson Hall\, Room 001 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/bluelab-header-abstract-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240615T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240615T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20240404T202235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T221603Z UID:26825-1718445600-1718460000@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Blue Lab Popup Story Patch at Morris Arboretum: Ecotopian Tools for Multispecies Flourishing DESCRIPTION:Visit the Main Event Landing Page\n \n Open to the public! \nOn Saturday\, June 15\, 2024\, Blue Lab will be staging our inaugural participatory public art project at Morris Arboretum & Gardens at the University of Pennsylvania! \nSupported by an award from the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and set within the curated landscape of the arboretum\, the Blue Lab Popup Story Patch: Ecotopian Tools for Multispecies Flourishing will create for visitors a space that is both part of and apart from their experience of nature-a space of generative self-reflection and freeplay that reframes their relationships to the multispecies worlds around them. \nEmphasizing imagination\, memory\, speculation and active engagement\, visitors to the Blue Lab Popup Story Patch will be invited to participate in conversations about individual plants and animals who have captivated their imaginations; these could be more-than-human family members (past or present)\, lively presences in yards or neighborhoods\, and reminders of ecological loss or of places far from home. For visitors who want to participate\, their stories will be recorded and become part of a living multimedia love letter to the more-than-human world. URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/blue-lab-popup-story-patch-at-morris-arboretum-ecotopian-tools-for-multispecies-flourishing/ LOCATION:Morris Arboretum & Gardens\, 100 E Northwestern Ave.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19118 CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Opening-Day-running-kids-2-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20231028T194404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T202513Z UID:26541-1711544400-1711551600@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:"Stories of resilience" forum (Sundance | RNPN) DESCRIPTION:Conversation about The Hottest August\nThis online forum is convened by the Artist Accelerator Program at Sundance Institute in partnership with  Resilient Nation Partnership Network (RNPN). The discussion is part of RNPN’s Eighth Annual Forum\, organized around the theme of “Stories of Resilience: Voices that Inspire.” The Forum highlights how storytelling can build community resilience\, bringing filmmakers\, artists and community leaders together to show how stories inspire behavioral change\, boost empathy\, and imagine different futures.  Blue Lab director Allison Carruth will be in conversation with filmmaker Brett Story and others about Story’s 2019 documentary The Hottest August. URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/ecomedia-scms-2024-copy/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Conferences & Symposia,Roundtables ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/hottest-august-crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240104T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240104T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20231028T174519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T195017Z UID:26517-1704382200-1704387600@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Micropolitics of environmental media (MLA) DESCRIPTION:The Climate Stories Incubator\nThis talk by Allison Carruth is part of the Screen Arts and Culture Forum-sponsored panel session at the 2024 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Philadelphia. The session explores how media studies and environmental studies interface in the field of ecomedia. The speakers will address case studies in ecomedia research\, teaching\, public engagement and creative practice. The panel is convened and chaired by Alenda Chang\, a professor of film and media studies and co-founding editor of Media+Environment at UC Santa Barbara. \nThe session program features four talks: \n\n\n“Synthetic Futures: Plastic\, Petroleum\, and Personhood in the Cultural Imagination\,” Elizabeth Swanstrom (University of Utah)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Composing Landscapes: Daguerreotype and the Asian American Outdoors\,” Heidi Amin-Hong (UC Santa Barbara)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Modeling Growth and Degrowth in Digital Games\,” Alenda Chang (UC Santa Barbara)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The Climate Stories Incubator\,” Allison Carruth (Princeton University)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Conference website URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/micropolitics-environmental-media-mla2024/ LOCATION:MLA 2024 in Philadelphia\, 1101 Arch Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States CATEGORIES:Conferences & Symposia,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/bluelab-header-abstract-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T163000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20231028T173043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T194859Z UID:26513-1701874800-1701880200@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Environmental humanities institution building (Northwestern) DESCRIPTION:Environmental Humanities Institution Building Symposium\nThis invitational virtual event will feature Blue Lab director Allison Carruth in conversation with Elizabeth Hennessy\, (professor of history and environmental studies at Wisconsin)\, Weishun Lu (Edge Effects managing editor and PhD student in English at Wisconsin)\, and Paul Sabin (professor of history and American studies at Yale). The group will be in conversation about the evolution and horizons of environmental humanities. \nThe event is convened by the Environmental Humanities Research Group at Northwestern University\, led by Professors Corey Byrnes (Asian Languages and Cultures\, Program in Comparative Literary Studies) and Keith Woodhouse (History\, Environmental Policy and Culture) and supported by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. \n \n Sponsor website URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/environmental-humanities-northwestern-2023/ LOCATION:Northwestern University (Zoom) CATEGORIES:Invitational Events,Roundtables,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2.5_DALL-E_LushSceneNatureMetaverse_2023.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231112 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20231028T181708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T194909Z UID:26523-1699574400-1699747199@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Building life symposium (MoMA | Princeton) DESCRIPTION:Building Life: Spatial Politics\, Science and Environmental Epistemes\nThis two-day public symposium examines how entanglements between the interdisciplinary fields of the built environment and the sciences have transformed concepts of nature\, territory\, and the environment over time\, reproducing global inequities that continue to (un)build life. The symposium will feature an array of scholars and practitioners whose work is reshaping our understanding of what it means to inhabit\, study\, and care for a climate-changed world. The symposium is connected to the MoMA exhibition Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism (runs through January 2024).\nSpanning the fields of art and architectural history\, environmental studies\, anthropology\, sociology\, race and ethnicity studies\, Indigenous studies\, colonial and postcolonial studies\, and science and technology studies\, among others\, papers will consider how spatial and scientific practices have historically shaped human interpretations and approaches to life. They will also offer speculative projections to imagine alternative possibilities.Convened by Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University) and Esther M. Choi (the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art)\, Building Life is co-presented by Princeton University and the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment at The Museum of Modern Art.\nRegistration is required but free. \n\nSession moderated by Blue lab director Allison Carruth\n“Second Natures and Environmental Imaginaries”Saturday\, November 11 from 2:00-4:45 \n\nIrene Small (Princeton University)\, “The Architecture of Interstitiality: Autopoiesis and the Organic Line”\nJohn Paul Ricco (University of Toronto)\, “To Become Extinct in the Very Practice of One’s Thinking”\nKath Weston (University of Virginia\, University of Edinburgh)\, “Bioengineering Financial Futures: From Synthetic Biology to Synthetic Bonds”\nJaskiran Dhillon (The New School)\, “Climate Change\, Environmental Epistemes\, and Guideposts for World-Making into the Future”\nJ. Kameron Carter (University of California\, Irvine)\, “Reimagining Matter\, or\, Whiteness as an Architectural Political Theology”\n\n\n Program Registration URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/building-life-moma/ LOCATION:Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | Princeton Architecture School CATEGORIES:Conferences & Symposia,Exhibits & Screenings,Invitational Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-28-at-2.11.28-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230711T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230711T143000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20230703T133232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T195010Z UID:26305-1689080400-1689085800@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Experiments in place-based research and creative practice (ASLE-AESS) DESCRIPTION:Experiments in Place-based Environmental Research and Creative Practice\nThis roundtable will introduce works-in-progress from Blue Lab core team members. \nIntroducing several current projects\, the roundtable will discuss our approaches to place-based environmental research and creative practice. The guiding question for our shared work\, which will structure the discussion\, is how climate change and other planetary crises are being lived in real-time and how different communities imagine livable futures for the places they know\, value and call home. Each collaboration involves the development of a public story series or body of creative work along with ongoing research about the methods\, challenges and impacts of the projects themselves. \nThe roundtable participants-which include the lab’s academic and creative leadership as well as undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars-are a multidisciplinary group. Our expertise includes: coral archives of earth history\, environmental histories of mining\, experimental ecopoetics\, environmental narrative\, interactive design\, multispecies ethnography\, public writing\, social-environmental documentary and groundwater modeling. For this proposed session\, each participant will deliver a short presentation on a Blue Lab project they are leading or co-leading that introduces the project’s animating idea or question\, its interlocutors and collaborators and its approach to research-driven environmental art and storytelling. \nThrough a conversation facilitated by the session chair\, we will reflect on both future directions and pressing challenges. We also will allow ample time for conversation with the audience\, which we hope will include members of kindred groups and centers at other institutions that have been leading the way in developing the public environmental humanities and participatory environmental studies. \n \n Conference Website URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/asle-aess-2023-conference-panel/ LOCATION:Oregon Convention Center\, Meeting Room G132\, 777 NE Martin Luther King\, Jr. Blvd\, Portland\, OR\, 97232\, United States CATEGORIES:Conferences & Symposia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/barron-bixler-wetland-tidal-pool.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20230703T134814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T182714Z UID:26307-1680177600-1680181200@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Oceanography otherwise: Marine methods in the environmental humanities DESCRIPTION:Campus Visit + Lecture by Alison Glassie\, Harvard University\n \n In The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology (1855)\, Matthew Fontaine Maury blames a major ocean current for the commercial decline of the U.S. South. “The Gulf Stream\, the water-thermometer\, and the improvements in navigation\,” he writes\, “changed the [status] of Charleston – the great Southern emporium of the times – removing it from its position as a half-way house and placing it in the category of an outside station” (79-80). Although this claim might seem counterintuitive coming from the pioneering scientist who introduced the word “oceanography” into the scientific lexicon in 1859\, Maury’s biography renders it unsurprising. In 1861\, at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War\, this “pathfinder of the seas” and “father of oceanography” would resign his commission as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory and Hydrographic Office and join the Confederate navy (Grady 2015; Hardy and Rozwadowski 2020). \nToday\, the ocean’s thermohaline circulation\, a heat exchange system in which Maury’s much-maligned Gulf Stream plays an important role\, is destabilizing due to climate change. Scientists and humanists alike are fathoming the ocean’s centrality to the historical structures of oppression whose legacies now contribute to its biophysical degradation. But oceanography – a portmanteau of the Greek words for ocean and writing – remains “a discipline rarely engaged by humanities scholars” (Steinberg 2013). My talk asks why. \nFirst\, I follow the long wakes of imperial voyagers including early modern Portuguese mariners and Maury himself through scientific and cultural understandings of the ocean. This wake extends to the oceanic turn\, a scholarly current in the humanities whose very name is a near-literal\, if inadvertent translation of the Portuguese imperial volta do mar. From here\, I consider the “Afrofuturist marine biology” (Jue) of Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon (2015) alongside the civic practices of contemporary marine biologists and archaeologists who are transforming science communication and fieldwork in light of racial justice. By bringing literary studies into conversation with the multidisciplinary scientific study of the global ocean\, I hope to prompt a conversation on method in environmental humanities that will help us all\, whatever our home fields happen to be\, imagine and inhabit more just ocean worlds “otherwise.” \nAli Glassie is a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University\, working at the intersection of comparative literature\, environmental humanities\, and ocean history. Her current book project\, Atlantic Shapeshifters: Sea Literature’s Fluid Forms\, uses 20th century and contemporary literature in English\, Spanish\, and Portuguese to recover and center gendered and racialized experiences with the ocean. In doing so\, the book draws on her training in marine affairs and her professional experience at sea. Ali’s writing appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Coriolis\, and sx/salon\, a literary platform of Small Axe. She has also published collaborative work on water justice in Bioscience and covered transatlantic yacht racing for Blue Water Sailing. \nSponsored by Blue Lab\, an environmental research\, art and storytelling group. \nSponsors\n\nBlue Lab\nEffron Center for the Study of America\nHigh Meadows Environmental Institute\nDepartment of English URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/oceanography-otherwise/ LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Bowl 002\, Princeton University CATEGORIES:Lectures & Keynotes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ocean_Currents_and_Sea_Ice_1943-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230302T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230302T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20230126T145932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T144611Z UID:26074-1677780000-1677787200@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Creative practice for social impact workshop DESCRIPTION:A workshop case study in food and environmental justice storytelling led by Barron Bixler + Allison Carruth\n \n Co-led by Allison Carruth and Barron Bixler of Princeton University’s Blue Lab\, this workshop is designed for scholars and students from across disciplines who have a creative practice or creative project idea and would benefit from insights on how to develop such work into a public-facing project with social impact. The workshop addresses a combination of conceptual principles and practical approaches to making collaborative\, creative\, multimedia work and finding audiences for it. For this invitational workshop at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, we will take as food and environmental justice storytelling as a case study. \n A prayer to Iemanjá: Collapsing fisheries in northeastern Brazil\nScreenshots from the case study: Story by Barron Bixler and Allison Carruth • Photography\, videography and design by Barron Bixler URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/creative-practice-for-social-impact-workshop-invitational/ LOCATION:University of Texas\, Arlington CATEGORIES:Invitational Events,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/pontal23_layers_crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230328 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20231028T184116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T190840Z UID:26527-1667433600-1679961599@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Ecotheories colloquium sponsor DESCRIPTION:“Acceleration” artwork by Feifei Zhou\nReprinted from Feral Atlas(Stanford UP 2020)\nLicensed under the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.\n \n Ecotheories Colloquium co-led by Kyra Morris and Denise Xu\n \nThis 2022-2023 colloquium explores the work of scholars for whom ecology becomes a foundation for theories of literature\, and for whom literature becomes a foundation for theories of ecology. The series of four talks and workshops explored a capacious set of questions: What ecotheories become possible if poiesis (or environment-building) rather than representation guides analysis? What material\, ethical\, and aesthetic possibilities open up if we consider art not as a mirror but as a site of interaction for human and non-human actors? What are the processes\, kinetics\, and performances of ecological thinking? How do we de-metaphorize and re-materialize terms like ecology and ecosystem? What possibilities does such a recasting open up for literary form and literary theory? Finally\, how might ecotheories help construct a decolonial ethics and politics for our contemporary moment? \nSponsors\n\nThe English Department’s Contemporary Poetry Colloquium The High Meadows Environmental Institute\nThe Bain-Swiggett Poetry Fund\nThe Effron Center for the Study of America\nThe Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\nThe University Center for Human Values\nBlue Lab\n\n\nProgram for 2022-2023\n\nAnna Lowenhaupt Tsing (UC Santa Barbara) | March 27\, 2023\n\n\nKimberly Bain (University of British Columbia) | February 15\, 2023\nAda Smailbegovic (Brown University) | November 14\, 2022\nCary Wolfe (Rice University) | November 3\, 2022 URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/ecotheories-colloquium/ LOCATION:Princeton University (various) CATEGORIES:Lectures & Keynotes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Zhou_Acceleration.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20220516T185904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T182616Z UID:25995-1649161800-1649165400@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:'The science is clear': Why the climate crisis needs new narratives" DESCRIPTION:Biosphere 2\, photo illustration courtesy of Barron Bixler. \n \n Synopsis\n \n This public lecture discusses how appeals to both big data and apocalyptic alarm define the most widely circulated environmental stories. While powerful for some groups\, these appeals do not speak to the increasingly unequal impacts of global warming. “‘The Science is Clear'” makes a case for narratives that develop localized\, lived accounts of climate change by drawing from examples that at once contribute on-the-ground knowledge and envision possible futures beyond catastrophe. \n\n lecture recording URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/science-is-clear/ LOCATION:Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lectures & Keynotes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bixler_biosphere2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220407 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20231028T190649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T190853Z UID:26537-1647043200-1649289599@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Marine city art show sponsor DESCRIPTION:Biosphere 2\, photo illustration courtesy of Barron Bixler. \n Exhibit overview\n“The Marine City Art Show explores the rich and varied relationship between NYC and its marine environment. The Greenpoint Art Circle\, a supportive collective for and by local visual creators of all levels\, and Sustainable Ocean Alliance NYC\, an ocean advocacy group\, have collaborated to present this art show at Greenpoint’s beautiful Church of the Ascension (127 Kent Street). The opening reception is Saturday\, March 12 from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. and will also feature poetry and live music on the theme. \nThe work in The Marine City explores the rich and storied relationship between New York City and its surrounding marine environment\, from personal perspectives and impressions to historical and community matters\, which include the effects of climate change. These visual works bring together a kaleidoscope of visions from artists that are inspired by the magnificence of our city’s waters and shorelands.” \nExcerpted from North Brooklyn News URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/marine-city-exhibit/ LOCATION:Greenpoint Art Circle\, 127 Kent Street\, New York City\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Events,Exhibits & Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/The-Marine-City_Exhibit_Gemma_S22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211025T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211025T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T055541 CREATED:20210719T183015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T190531Z UID:25971-1635175800-1635181200@bluelabmedia.org SUMMARY:Nature remade DESCRIPTION:“Cultures and Land at Risk” by NASA Goddard Photo and Video (licensed under CC BY 2.0) \n \n Synopsis\n \n Drawn from the book-in-progress Novel Ecologies\, “Nature remade” addresses a strain of environmental thought centered on the West Coast that advances a simultaneously neocolonial and futuristic orientation to the climate crisis. Through this lens of nature remade\, ecosystems must be technologically retrofitted to sustain privileged modes of human life-rather than remediated through structural transformations that arc toward environmental justice. In offering this critique\, the lecture questions fixations on wilderness and the pastoral that have long shaped American environmental imaginaries\, while attending to the ambivalent allure of “making new nature” via climate engineering. The lecture puts visions of nature remade into dialogue with contemporary writers and artists who variously interrogate the power of tech in contemporary environmentalism. URL:https://bluelabmedia.org/event/nature-remade/ LOCATION:University of Tennessee (Virtual)\, University of Tennessee\, Knoxville\, United States CATEGORIES:Lectures & Keynotes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bluelabmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/nasa_cultureslandsatrisk_creativecommons.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR