Department Talk Series: Dr. Amy Moran-Thomas
Please join us on Wednesday, February 28th from 12:20-1:10pm for a Department Talk by Dr. Amy Moran-Thomas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. The talk will take place in CAS 426 at 725 Commonwealth ave.
Oil in Stereo: Ancestry Through Infrastructure, an ethnography of oil histories in western Pennsylvania, brings the texture of a family album to the interior dilemmas and sensory technologies of ecological destruction. Populating the abstractions of settler colonialism and hydrocarbon toxicity with the jarring intimacy of a kinship story, this genre experiment reflects on planetary health, questions of “slow violence” and intergenerational responsibility from the grounding of combustible family histories.
Lunch will be provided.
