Upcoming Events
Ecologies of Difference: A Discussion of Austin Zeiderman’s Artery
Austin Zeiderman, Majed Akhter, Gisa Weszkalnys, Jake Subryan Richards, Kasia Paprocki
SLCC
Date: May 14, 2025
Location: LSE, MAR 1.08
Time: 18:00-19:30
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
Tao Leigh Goffe, Hunter College, City University of New York
SLCC
Date: March 4, 2025
Location: LSE, OLD 3.24
Time: 17:00-19:00
The Ocean at the End of History
Jessica Lehman, Department of Geography, Durham University
SLCC
Date: March 13, 2025
Location: LSE, OLD 3.24
Time: 15:00-16:30
2025
Unjust Energy Transition: Vignettes from the COPs, Climate Finance, and a Coal Hotspot
Nikita Sud, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
SLCC
Date: January 30, 2025
Location: LSE, OLD 3.24
Time: 15:00–16:30
2024
Planetary Mould: More than Human Thermofixes for 1.5 Degrees
Jamie Cross, School of Social and Political Sciences and Glasgow Changing Futures, University of Glasgow
SLCC
Date: November 21, 2024
Time: 1500–1630
Archival Encounters: Writing on Black Ecological Memory
Tianna Bruno, Department of Geography, University of California Berkeley
SLCC
Date: October 10, 2024
Time: 15:00-16:30
Digging in the Drylands: Labor and Landform in Nature-based Solutions
Leigh Johnson, Department of Geography, University of Oregon
SLCC
Date: March 8, 2024
Time: 14:00-15:30
All We Want is the Earth: Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism
Patrick Bresnihan, Department of Geography, Maynooth University and Naomi Millner, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
SLCC
Date: May 21, 2024
Time: 14:30-16:00
Angola Prison’s Black Ecologies
Justin Hosbey, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
SLCC
Date: February 8, 2024
Time: 15:00-16:30
2023
Durable Derangements: The Making of Mumbai’s Coastal Road
Nikhil Anand, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
SLCC
Date: March 8, 2023
Time: 14:00-15:30
Seawall Entanglements: Contested Futures and the Politics of Staying in Place
Summer Gray, Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
SLCC
Date: March 13, 2023
Time: 16:00-17:15
Amongst Tigers: Sentinel Beasts on a Climate Frontier
Jason Cons, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin
SLCC
Date: November 30, 2023
Time: 15:00-16:30
Film Screening and Discussion
Achieving Justice when Stopping Oil: OFFSHORE Film Screening and Discussion
SLCC
Date: February 8, 2023
Time: 17:00-18:30
Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield
Yolanda Ariadne Collins, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
SLCC
Date: October 19, 2023
Time: 15:00-16:30
2022
Can we Have Reproductive Justice in a Climate Crisis?
Jade Sasser, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside
SLCC
Date: March 22, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:30
The Greening Imaginary: From Garden Cities to Climate Justice
Hillary Angelo, Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz
SLCC
Date: February 1, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:30
Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System
Jerry Zee, Department of Anthropology and High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University
SLCC
Date: March 8, 2022
Time: 14:30-16:00
Sedimented Stories: Fluvial Forces and Natural Archives in an Unstable World
Alejandro Camargo, Department of History and Social Sciences, Universidad del Norte (Colombia)
SLCC
Date: November 7, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:15
Imagining Urban Futures: Adaptation and the Politics of Possibility in Jakarta
Emma Colven, Assistant Professor of Global Environment, University of Oklahoma
SLCC
Date: May 10, 2022
Time: 14:30-16:00
Late Acceleration: The Early 1970s Climate Shock and Carbon Autocracy in India
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Department of History, University of Chicago
SLCC
Date: October 24, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:15
2021
Climate Futures’ Past: Insurance, Cyclones and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Department of History, Drexel University
SLCC
Date: March 23, 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30
Encountering Climate in Models and Materials
Hannah Knox, Department of Anthropology, UCL
SLCC
Date: January 26, 2021
Time: 13:00-14:30
At the Island’s Edge: Living and Learning Within Intersectional Ecologies
Amelia Moore, Department of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
SLCC
Date: February 16, 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30
What is Climate Resilience for All?
Lisa Schipper, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
SLCC
Date: November 30, 2021
Time: 11:00-12:30
Ceasing the Means of Reduction: Toward a New Antiracist Approach to Community Solar Campaigns
Myles Lennon, Dean’s Assistant Professor of Environment and Society & Anthropology, Brown University
SLCC
Date: November 16, 2021
Time: 16:30-18:00
The (Applied) Epistemology of Resilience and Adaptation
Jesse M. Keenan, School of Architecture, Tulane University
SLCC
Date: May 4, 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30
Taking Renewables to Market: Prospects for the After-Subsidy Energy Transition
Brett Christophers, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University
SLCC
Date: October 26, 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30
2020
Unruly Landscapes of Environmental Change: Imagining a Future Himalaya
Andrea Nightingale, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
SLCC
Date: January 27, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
The Housing/Habitat Project: Tracing Impacts of the Affordability Crisis in the Wildlands of Exurban California
Miriam Greenberg, Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz
SLCC
Date: February 17, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
Damages Done: The Long-Term Impacts of Rising Disaster Costs on Wealth Inequality
James R. Elliott, Department of Sociology, Rice University
SLCC
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 4-5:30
Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Current Environmental Crisis
Veronica Strang, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University
SLCC
Date: December 1, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
The politics of climate change, uncertainty and transformation in marginal environments
Professor Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK; Visiting Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
SLCC
Date: June 8, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
The New U.S. Climate Battleground: Actors and Coalitions in the States
J. Timmons Roberts, Department of Sociology and Institute at Brown for Environment & Society, Brown University
SLCC
Date: October 13, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
2019
Renewing Accumulation? Political Economies and Ecologies of Renewable Energy
James McCarthy, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
SLCC
Date: March 18, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
Crooked Cats: Human-Big Cat Entanglements in the Anthropocene
Nayanika Mathur, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
SLCC
Date: May 13, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
From Planetary Improvement to Energy Abolition: Against and beyond the Transparent Energy of Whiteness
Jesse Goldstein, Department of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University
SLCC
Date: February 4, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
Rentiers of the Green Economy? Placing Rent in Clean Energy Transition
Sarah Knuth, Department of Geography, Durham University
SLCC
Date: March 4, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
Follow the Carbon: Housing Movements and Carbon Emissions in the 21st Century City
Daniel Aldana Cohen, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
SLCC
Date: November 11, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
What is a Resource Curse?: Energy, Infrastructure, Colonialism, and Climate Change in Native North America
Andrew Curley, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SLCC
Date: December 2, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
Book Launch: Spaceship in the Desert
Gökçe Günel, Department of Anthropology, Rice University
SLCC
Date: October 21, 2019
Time: 18:00-19:30
A Prayer for the World: Climate Change, Engaged Scholarship, and Writing the Future
Paige West, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University
SLCC
Date: November 4, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
2018
Building Green: Forging Environmental Futures in Mumbai
Anne Rademacher, Program in Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology, New York University
SLCC
Date: May 2, 2018
Time: 16:30-18:00
The Fight for Retreat: Urban Unbuilding in the Era of Climate Change
Liz Koslov, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
SLCC
Date: June 4, 2018
Time: 16:30-18:00
Demand: Exploring the Dynamics of Energy, Mobility, and Demand
Elizabeth Shove, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
SLCC
Date: November 12, 2018
Time: 13:00-14:30
Divided Legacies of the Landsat Satellite: The Origins of a Climate Science Tool in American Mineral Exploits, 1965-1980
Megan Black, Department of International History, LSE
SLCC
Date: December 3, 2018
Time: 13:00-14:30
From Urban Resilience to Abolitionist Climate Justice in Washington, DC
Malini Ranganathan, School of International Service, American University
SLCC
Date: October 8, 2018
Time: 13:00-14:30
Ecologies of Difference: A Discussion of Austin Zeiderman’s Artery
Austin Zeiderman, Majed Akhter, Gisa Weszkalnys, Jake Subryan Richards, Kasia Paprocki
SLCC
Date: May 14, 2025
Location: LSE, MAR 1.08
Time: 18:00-19:30
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
Tao Leigh Goffe, Hunter College, City University of New York
SLCC
Date: March 4, 2025
Location: LSE, OLD 3.24
Time: 17:00-19:00
The Ocean at the End of History
Jessica Lehman, Department of Geography, Durham University
SLCC
Date: March 13, 2025
Location: LSE, OLD 3.24
Time: 15:00-16:30
Unjust Energy Transition: Vignettes from the COPs, Climate Finance, and a Coal Hotspot
Nikita Sud, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
SLCC
Date: January 30, 2025
Location: LSE, OLD 3.24
Time: 15:00–16:30
Planetary Mould: More than Human Thermofixes for 1.5 Degrees
Jamie Cross, School of Social and Political Sciences and Glasgow Changing Futures, University of Glasgow
SLCC
Date: November 21, 2024
Time: 1500–1630
Archival Encounters: Writing on Black Ecological Memory
Tianna Bruno, Department of Geography, University of California Berkeley
SLCC
Date: October 10, 2024
Time: 15:00-16:30
The Fight for Retreat: Urban Unbuilding in the Era of Climate Change
Liz Koslov, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
SLCC
Date: June 4, 2018
Time: 16:30-18:00
Building Green: Forging Environmental Futures in Mumbai
Anne Rademacher, Program in Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology, New York University
SLCC
Date: May 2, 2018
Time: 16:30-18:00
Divided Legacies of the Landsat Satellite: The Origins of a Climate Science Tool in American Mineral Exploits, 1965-1980
Megan Black, Department of International History, LSE
SLCC
Date: December 3, 2018
Time: 13:00-14:30
Demand: Exploring the Dynamics of Energy, Mobility, and Demand
Elizabeth Shove, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
SLCC
Date: November 12, 2018
Time: 13:00-14:30
From Urban Resilience to Abolitionist Climate Justice in Washington, DC
Malini Ranganathan, School of International Service, American University
SLCC
Date: October 8, 2018
Time: 13:00-14:30
Renewing Accumulation? Political Economies and Ecologies of Renewable Energy
James McCarthy, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
SLCC
Date: March 18, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
Rentiers of the Green Economy? Placing Rent in Clean Energy Transition
Sarah Knuth, Department of Geography, Durham University
SLCC
Date: March 4, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
From Planetary Improvement to Energy Abolition: Against and beyond the Transparent Energy of Whiteness
Jesse Goldstein, Department of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University
SLCC
Date: February 4, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
Crooked Cats: Human-Big Cat Entanglements in the Anthropocene
Nayanika Mathur, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
SLCC
Date: May 13, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
What is a Resource Curse?: Energy, Infrastructure, Colonialism, and Climate Change in Native North America
Andrew Curley, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SLCC
Date: December 2, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
Follow the Carbon: Housing Movements and Carbon Emissions in the 21st Century City
Daniel Aldana Cohen, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
SLCC
Date: November 11, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
A Prayer for the World: Climate Change, Engaged Scholarship, and Writing the Future
Paige West, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University
SLCC
Date: November 4, 2019
Time: 13:00-14:30
Book Launch: Spaceship in the Desert
Gökçe Günel, Department of Anthropology, Rice University
SLCC
Date: October 21, 2019
Time: 18:00-19:30
The Housing/Habitat Project: Tracing Impacts of the Affordability Crisis in the Wildlands of Exurban California
Miriam Greenberg, Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz
SLCC
Date: February 17, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
Unruly Landscapes of Environmental Change: Imagining a Future Himalaya
Andrea Nightingale, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
SLCC
Date: January 27, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
The politics of climate change, uncertainty and transformation in marginal environments
Professor Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK; Visiting Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
SLCC
Date: June 8, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Current Environmental Crisis
Veronica Strang, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University
SLCC
Date: December 1, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
Damages Done: The Long-Term Impacts of Rising Disaster Costs on Wealth Inequality
James R. Elliott, Department of Sociology, Rice University
SLCC
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 4-5:30
The New U.S. Climate Battleground: Actors and Coalitions in the States
J. Timmons Roberts, Department of Sociology and Institute at Brown for Environment & Society, Brown University
SLCC
Date: October 13, 2020
Time: 13:00-14:30
Climate Futures’ Past: Insurance, Cyclones and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Department of History, Drexel University
SLCC
Date: March 23, 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30
At the Island’s Edge: Living and Learning Within Intersectional Ecologies
Amelia Moore, Department of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
SLCC
Date: February 16, 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30
Encountering Climate in Models and Materials
Hannah Knox, Department of Anthropology, UCL
SLCC
Date: January 26, 2021
Time: 13:00-14:30
The (Applied) Epistemology of Resilience and Adaptation
Jesse M. Keenan, School of Architecture, Tulane University
SLCC
Date: May 4, 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30
Ceasing the Means of Reduction: Toward a New Antiracist Approach to Community Solar Campaigns
Myles Lennon, Dean’s Assistant Professor of Environment and Society & Anthropology, Brown University
SLCC
Date: November 16, 2021
Time: 16:30-18:00
What is Climate Resilience for All?
Lisa Schipper, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
SLCC
Date: November 30, 2021
Time: 11:00-12:30
Taking Renewables to Market: Prospects for the After-Subsidy Energy Transition
Brett Christophers, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University
SLCC
Date: October 26, 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30
Can we Have Reproductive Justice in a Climate Crisis?
Jade Sasser, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside
SLCC
Date: March 22, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:30
Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System
Jerry Zee, Department of Anthropology and High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University
SLCC
Date: March 8, 2022
Time: 14:30-16:00
The Greening Imaginary: From Garden Cities to Climate Justice
Hillary Angelo, Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz
SLCC
Date: February 1, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:30
Imagining Urban Futures: Adaptation and the Politics of Possibility in Jakarta
Emma Colven, Assistant Professor of Global Environment, University of Oklahoma
SLCC
Date: May 10, 2022
Time: 14:30-16:00
Sedimented Stories: Fluvial Forces and Natural Archives in an Unstable World
Alejandro Camargo, Department of History and Social Sciences, Universidad del Norte (Colombia)
SLCC
Date: November 7, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:15
Late Acceleration: The Early 1970s Climate Shock and Carbon Autocracy in India
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Department of History, University of Chicago
SLCC
Date: October 24, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:15
Seawall Entanglements: Contested Futures and the Politics of Staying in Place
Summer Gray, Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
SLCC
Date: March 13, 2023
Time: 16:00-17:15
Durable Derangements: The Making of Mumbai’s Coastal Road
Nikhil Anand, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
SLCC
Date: March 8, 2023
Time: 14:00-15:30
Film Screening and Discussion
Achieving Justice when Stopping Oil: OFFSHORE Film Screening and Discussion
SLCC
Date: February 8, 2023
Time: 17:00-18:30
Amongst Tigers: Sentinel Beasts on a Climate Frontier
Jason Cons, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin
SLCC
Date: November 30, 2023
Time: 15:00-16:30
Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield
Yolanda Ariadne Collins, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
SLCC
Date: October 19, 2023
Time: 15:00-16:30
Digging in the Drylands: Labor and Landform in Nature-based Solutions
Leigh Johnson, Department of Geography, University of Oregon
SLCC
Date: March 8, 2024
Time: 14:00-15:30
Angola Prison’s Black Ecologies
Justin Hosbey, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
SLCC
Date: February 8, 2024
Time: 15:00-16:30
All We Want is the Earth: Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism
Patrick Bresnihan, Department of Geography, Maynooth University and Naomi Millner, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol