News from the John W. Kluge Center: Starting soon, 4pm ET - "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action"

You are subscribed to News from the John W. Kluge Center from the Library of Congress. https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_029A8IPISu22_yqDQf81dw Join us today at 4pm for a discussion of a book by Dana R. Fisher, "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action." It will be available to watch live, virtually as well as in person in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress. Today, Wednesday, February 28 at 4pm we have Dana R. Fisher and Dharna Noor discussing climate change and climate action. Fisher, a recent Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Kluge Center, is the author of "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action." In it, she argues there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private sector efforts have been ineffective and how, spurred by this lack of progress, climate activism has become increasingly confrontational. Dana R. Fisher is Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity and Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She currently serves as the President of the Eastern Sociological Society, a Non Resident Senior Fellow in the Governance Program at the Brookings Institution, and the chair-elect of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Dharna Noor is Fossil Fuels and Climate Reporter at the Guardian US. She has previously reported for The Boston Globe, Earther, Gizmodo, and The Real News.   Next month, on Wednesday, March 27 at 4pm we have Kislak Chair Marcy Norton delivering the annual Kislak Lecture on "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492"  In Norton's new book "The Tame and the Wild," she describes the way that Native American and European beliefs about animal life transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic. In this event, she will discuss the changes wrought by the introduction of European farming to the Americas as well as Native American taming of animals to European colonizers. Marcy Norton is a historian of the early modern Atlantic World at the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on Latin America and Spain. Much of her research is guided by two questions: How did colonialism shape the Americas? And how did Native America shape European modernity? Thematically she is most interested in writing history that explores the intersections of environment, embodiment, and thought, concerns that have guided her work on the history of food, drugs, science and inter-species relationships. Her publications include "Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic," "Subaltern Technologies and Early Modernity in the Atlantic World," "Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics," and "The Chicken or the Iegue: Human-Animal Relationships and the Columbian Exchange." Home  |  About  |  Contact Subscriber Preferences & Unsubscribe | Subscriber Help   This email was sent to sajanram.shrestha@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: Library of Congress · 101 Independence Ave, SE · Washington, DC 20540 · 202-707-5000