Sunday, November 8, 2020 - 2:00pm to Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 12:00pm
Hybrid
Workshop Series Exploring Our Connection to Climate-Related Upheavals
Mapping Loss in the Anthropocene is a Year of Creativity event co-sponsored by the Global Studies Center and the World History Center. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on human-driven climate change and to create maps that capture or express their relationships to - changing sea levels, favorite natural locations, species impacts, affective responses -- it's up each participant how to engage this topic.
Sponsored by: University of Pittsburgh's World History Center, Provost’s Year of Creativity, and the Global Studies Center
November 8 - December 16, 2020 - Anthropocene: Epoch of Loss
This virtual workshop will be available for participation until December 16, the purpose of the workshop is to create a space for people to engage with their world through digital methods and art. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on human-driven climate change and to create maps and art that capture or express their relationships to the natural world while building digital and artistic skills. This workshop can be done entirely asynchronously. Please register here!
Please view the Schedule for additional information.
*Participation in the full series is encouraged, but not required*
Ruth
Mostern Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Ruth Mostern is a specialist in spatial and environmental history focusing on imperial China and the world. Her research interests bridging the humanities, social sciences, information science and environmental science.
Nicole
Heller Ph.D
Associate Curator, Anthropocene Studies, Carnegie Mellon University
Nicole Heller is Associate Curator of Anthropocene Studies for Carnegie Museum of Natural History. She is a transdisciplinary professional focused on improving cultural and ecological sustainability. Heller received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Biological Sciences in 2005, and a B.A. from Princeton University in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 1995. She conducted postdoctoral research in the Environmental Studies Department at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Heller’s primary research is concerned with understanding and promoting biological diversity in the face of global changes associated with the Anthropocene. Heller’s dissertation research focused on the ecology of a globally dispersed ant: the Argentine ant. Her work shed light on their social organization and interactions with climate and human systems, and how these factors combine to determine the ants’ rate of spread and impact.
Michael
Goodhart Ph.D
Director, Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Goodhart is Professor of Political Science, and he holds secondary appointments in Philosophy and in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. His current research focuses on questions to do with global injustice and responsibility for injustice. He is also interested in thinking about new modes of political theorizing for the Anthropocene. His core intellectual interests are in the theory and practice of democracy and human rights in the context of globalization and in related questions concerning global justice, democratic governance, and political responsibility at the transnational level.
Susan
Grunewald Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow, World History Center, University of Pittsburgh
Susan Grunewald received her Ph.D. in History from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019. She specializes in Soviet and German history, especially related to the Second World War and the early Cold War. Her research focuses on German prisoners of war (POWs) in the Soviet Union from 1941-1956. Her research includes a GIS mapping project of the over 4,000 German POW camps that operated across the entire Soviet Union. Her digital research blends spatial and environmental history with archival findings from Russia, Germany, and the United States.
Katy
Dement
Katy DeMent’s papermaking class exposes students to the principals of science and history while actively engaging students in the process and techniques of papermaking.
Boris
Michev
Curator, University Library Systems, University of Pittsburgh
A key component of Boris Michev's work is the introduction of the new geospatial visualization technologies to faculty and students in the humanities. He believes outreach plays a major role in increasing the visibility of the ULS collections and services, and the opportunities that mapping and visualization software present. Outreach is also a way of engaging in the cultural discourse at the University, and at the local, national, and even international level. His digital expertise ranges from GIS and mapping (ArcGIS, Social Explorer, SimplyAnalytics, PolicyMap), data visualization (Tableau and ESRI StoryMap)