"Carboniferous Art and the “Latino Belt”: Remapping Migration, Recollecting Politics"

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Speaker: Jason de Lara Molesky, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Hannah Waits

Jason de Lara Molesky is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University (beginning in 2024), with specialties in modern and contemporary...

"Charismatic Factuality: The Affective Labor of Oil Industry Boosters"

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Speaker: Nataya Friedan, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Sven Beckert

Nataya Friedan is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on climate change misinformation in North America. Her current book project, Selling Swampland to Yankees...

"Performances of Infrastructure and Changing Climates in Nunavut"

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Speaker: Clara Wilch, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Robin Bernstein

Clara Wilch is an interdisciplinary environmental studies scholar who researches performance-based negotiations of climate change with an interest in infrastructural and...

"He Sendeth Rain on the Just and the Unjust: Social Response to Environmental Crisis in Medieval Romney Marsh"

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Speaker: Tobias Hrynick, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Alex Moore

Tobias Hrynick is an environmental and digital historian, who conducted his PhD. training in medieval history at Fordham University....

"Anneal this Breath: Reading Glass, Poetics, and Nuclear Genealogies with Yhonnie Scarce"

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Speaker: Rebecca H. Hogue, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Katie Holmes

Rebecca H. Hogue (she/they) grew up on the island of Oʻahu and writes about empire, militarization, and the environment in the...

"Administering Presence: The Role of Science and Technology in Nonhuman and Fetal Rights Projects"

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Speaker: Lindsay O'Connor Stern, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Rebecca Lemov

Lindsay O’Connor Stern received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Her current...

"Photosensitive Skin: Lebensreform Photography and the Open-Air Nude"

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Speaker: Katerina Korola, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Laura Frahm

Katerina Korola is an art historian and media scholar whose work focuses on the history of photography, cinema, and modern art in the nineteenth and...

"Slow Transparency: Lead, Water Crises, and the Formation of Publics"

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Speaker: Kessie Alexandre, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Steven Caton

Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research organizes around questions of risk...

"Drinking Water in the Silver City of Potosí: Hydraulic Infrastructures and Practices in the Colonial Andes"

Speaker: Julio Aguilar, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Gabriela Soto Laveaga

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Julio Aguilar received a PhD in History at...

"Spectres of Settler Infrastructuralisms: Van Ginkel Associates Go North"

Speaker: Jordan B. Kinder, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Abby Spinak

Jordan B. Kinder is a Métis and settler-British media studies and environmental humanities scholar from a resource town in what is now known as northern British Columbia, Canada. He studies the cultural politics of energy,...

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"'Why Do Pandas Have So Little Sex?' Representations of Giant Panda Reproduction in Zoo Captive-Breeding Programs"

Speaker: Meg Perret, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Karen Thornber

Meg Perret (she/they) completed her Ph.D. in History of Science with a secondary field in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies from ...

"Wildernessing: Settler Colonialism and the Outdoor Industry's Campaign to 'Never Stop Exploring'"

Speaker: Joseph Whitson, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow

Respondent: Pamela Klassen

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Joseph Whitson received his PhD in American...