Arctic Worlds: A Symposium on the Environment and Humanities

Starts:
9:00 am on Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Ends:
5:00 pm on Wednesday, February 26, 2020
URL:
http://www.bu.edu/pardee/2019/12/20/arctic-worlds-a-symposium-on-the-environment-and-humanities/
Location:
Barristers Hall, BU School of Law, 1st Floor, 765 Commonwealth Avenue
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Center for the Humanities invite you to attend “Arctic Worlds: A Symposium on the Environment and Humanities” on Wednesday, February 26 from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm at Barristers Hall, BU School of Law 1st Floor. This all-day symposium will include a series of panel discussions featuring leading Arctic experts, as well as a keynote address by Inuuteq Holm Olsen, Minister Plenipotentiary for Greenland at the Royal Danish Embassy. The symposium is being convened by Adriana Craciun, Pardee Center Faculty Associate and Professor & Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities at Boston University. Other confirmed speakers include: Barbara Bodenhorn – Emeritus Fellow, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge Michael Bravo – Senior Lecturer, Geography, University of Cambridge Lauren E. Culler – Research Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College Mary C. Fuller – Professor, Literature, MIT Catherine West – Research Assistant Professor, Anthropology & Archaeology, BU Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow