We are recruiting for our third MA cohort in Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies. Generous scholarships and fellowships available. Appreciate if you might pass on the information to interested parties.
This is an interdisciplinary Master’s program grounded in environmental humanities and political ecology with further options to focus on a range of topical areas from theories of nature-culture studies to Anthropocene studies, climate change cultures and green cultural studies to animal studies, eco-literatures, eco-political aesthetics and global supply chains to the political ecology of post-carbon futures amongst other issues. More information and a short film on the Master’s program can be viewed here: liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss
Recent/forthcoming RISD/NCSS events/speakers include: Tony Fry (on decoloniality, ecology and eco-design), Juliet Schor (plenitude and platform co-ops), Neil Brenner (planetary urbanism), Laurence Delina (green new deal & war time mobilization), Jesse Jenkins (eco-pragmatism & rapid decarbonization), Alison Clark (eco-design and the legacy of Victor Papenek), Paola Antonelli (Broken Nature eco-art futures), Asim Waqif (on public art and ecology in India); Matt Hern (on climate change and the Tar Sands); Alyssa Battistoni (on gender, ecosocialism and Just transitions), Arturo Escobar (on sustainable designs for the pluriverse), Carolyn Finney (on the racial histories of landscape use in the US), Jason Moore (on the capitocene). Many of these talks can be watched here: https://liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss/events/
Recent conferences:
1.You can watch our Nov 2018 conference Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition here:
2.You can watch our Oct 2019 conference Race and Environment in the United States - African American & Native American Perspectives here:
3. Climate Futures II Design Politics, Design Natures, Aesthetics and the Green New Deal
will be livestream this Thursday, December 5 https://livestream.com/RISD/climate-futures-ii
For inquires about the program please contact, Professor Jonathan Highfield, Graduate Program Director of Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies jhighfie@risd.edu
Thanks—
Damian White
Damian F. White
Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of Social Theory and Environmental Studies;
Rhode Island School of Design
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