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FRANCE AND THE WORLD
SPEAKER: Dominic Boyer, Rice University
The co-author with Imre Szeman of the well-known edited volume, Energy Humanities that is at the core of Boyer's interests, his talk, Energy Humanities: An Introduction," will give an overview of his current concerns.
About the Speaker
Dominic Boyer is a cultural anthropologist, media maker and co-founder of the field of Energy Humanities. In addition to serving on the Board of Governors of the Rice Sustainability Institute, he co-directs Rice’s new Center for Coastal Futures and Adaptive Resilience (CFAR) and will direct its forthcoming Social Design Lab (SDL). Boyer's design for the world’s first glacier memorial was named a Finalist for a 2020 Beazley Design of the Year Award by the London Design Museum. The same project inspired The Economist to create its first-ever obituary for a non-human. Boyer’s recent research has been supported by NSF, NOAA, the Berggruen Institute, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, among others. The author of nine books and volumes and more than 100 research articles, Boyer’s latest book is No More Fossils (U Minnesota Press, 2023), a discussion of the fossilization of fossil fuels and the coming transition from petroculture to electroculture.
Please note that speaker will appearing on Zoom for this seminar.