Discussion Group

Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2020
4:00-5:00 pm (CST), via Zoom

Meeting information:
https://tamu.zoom.us/j/303363828
Meeting ID: 303-363-828

HLSS Discussion Group on Covid-19 and the Environment

 Here are a few materials to serve as the basis of our discussion. These short pieces form just a small set of ever-growing responses to environmental, animal welfare, and other issues in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On human-wildlife interactions, environment, climate change:

• An article from Society and Space, by a political ecologist: China’s Global Reach: Urban Social Lives of the More-than-Human
• A statement on World Health Day from the UN Biodiversity Convention
• A more historical view: Spillover Warning: How We Can Prevent the Next Pandemic
• An open letter to WHO from wildlife organizations
• A short piece by the head of UNEP

On air pollution:

• Why pollution is plummeting in some cities — but not others

• The Pandemic Is Turning the Natural World Upside Down

• India Savors a Rare Upside to Coronavirus: Clean Air

On sound and the environment:

• Coronavirus Turns Urban Life’s Roar to Whisper on World’s Seismographs

From Bruno Latour: “A little exercise to make sure that, after the virus crisis, things don’t start again as they were before”

Past Discussions

Wednesday October 23rd, 2019
12:30PM – 2:00PM

Glasscock 311

HLSS Discussion Group: Oceanic Humanities Readings

Readings for this meeting are by our two keynote speakers for the Oceanic Humanities symposium. Rozwadowski’s 2018 book is available in the library, and further publications can be found here http://fathomingtheocean.com/articles/

Click here to download the reading sample from Rozwadowski.
Click here to download the reading sample from Winkiel.