A CLEAR AND PRESENT PEDAGOGY: COLLEGE IN AN AGE OF CLIMATE CRISIS

The climate crisis confronts each of us, including and especially young people, with urgent questions and bewildering choices about how to live, what to learn, where to go, what to do, and who to be at this momentous historical crossroads. Building on Naomi Klein’s Margolin Lecture from the previous week, this event will bring together students and faculty to discuss how and why college (i.e. what we’re all doing right now) might matter, or might come to matter, as we confront increasingly turbulent planetary futures. What can (and arguably should) college offer to young people as they prepare to join this pivotal historical moment? What does it mean for our students—from dancers and economists to marine biologists, elementary school teachers, and computer scientists—to be coming of age in an age of climate catastrophe? And what would an education that is proportionate to the dire urgencies and radical implications of the climate crisis look like?

Please join us for an interdisciplinary panel discussion featuring Carolyn Finney (Environmental Studies), James Sanchez (Writing & Rhetoric), Jamie McCallum (Sociology), Kirsten Coe (Biology), and Tara Affolter (Education), in conversation with students and Prof. Dan Suarez.