Consider the many despoiled landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay and our Jones Falls and Patapsco watersheds: junk heaps, rotting piers, spoil basins, and the many lingering marks of this region’s industrial heritage. How can we imagine what these places have been and what they may yet become as elements of future lives? And how might we connect these relics of our time with the natural and cultural life of other places as we work to reforest our own imaginations, thinking and working through the ruins of our time? Register to attend Futures in the Face of Ruin, co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health, to reflect on such questions alongside artists and academics in the environmental humanities, including:
- Jane Bennett, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities, Departments of Political Science and Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University
- Marina Bedran, Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures, Johns Hopkins University
- Harris Feinsod, Research Professor, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
- Gisela Heffes, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture, Head of the Spanish and Portuguese Subdivision, Director of Graduate Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Johns Hopkins University
- Anand Pandian, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
- Jordan Tierney, Baltimore-based Artist and Visual Philosopher
Date and time: Sunday, March 2 | 12 – 1:30pm EST
Location: The Peale Museum | 225 Holliday Street
