Fantasies, Forests, Fossils, Futures: Questions of Climate Crisis

Thursday 18 June 2026, 12 midday - 1.30pm

Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

All welcome

What remains and what is next for a climate-changed world? Hillary Angelo’s How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens examines urban greening as a social process, tracing its history from industrial cities to climate urbanism. Lynne Huffer’s These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction reflects on climate change and mass extinction and articulates an ethics of living on a devastated planet. In this roundtable, the authors will be in conversation with the anthropologist Nayanika Mathur to explore how cultural, material, and ecological legacies of the past are used as resources for the future, particularly in addressing and adapting to climate change.

Environmental Humanities, TORCH Hubs