Green Hour am 07. November 2024, 12-13 Uhr:

“Bateson's alphabet: The ABC’s of Gregory Bateson's Ecology of Mind” (Prof. Jacob Smith)

Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) began his career as an anthropologist in the 1930s, yet Bateson has also been recognized as an important early practitioner of ethnographic filmmaking, a key figure in the early development of cybernetics, and a point of reference for environmental artists and activists. In fact, Bateson was an important environmental thinker who was sounding the alarm about global warming and runaway patterns of consumption fifty years ago and his research connected the symptoms of ecological crisis to deeply rooted systems of Western thought.

In this talk I will provide a sampling of my new experimental online book, Bateson’s Alphabet in order to facilitate an introduction to Bateson’s “ecology of mind.” The book draws on new archival sources to provide an engaging and accessible, online, hyperlinked interface with Bateson’s system of ecological thought. The talk will mirror the book’s short, alphabetized mini-essays, which put Bateson in conversation with current scholarship in the environmental humanities and ground his ideas in a concrete example from a media text.

Jacob Smith is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and co-founder of the MA in Sound Arts and Industries at Northwestern University. He has written several books, most recently Eco-Sonic Media (2015), ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene (2019), and Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves (2021). ESC and Lightning Birds are experimental audiobooks that can be heard at the University of Michigan Press website. His most recent book is Bateson’s Alphabet: The ABCs of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind (University of Michigan Press).

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Green Hour am 21. November 2024, 12-13 Uhr:

"Compound Atmospheric Extreme Events" (Prof. Dr. Elke Hertig)

The study and analysis of meteorological and climatological extreme events has a long history due to their significance and not seldom devastating impacts on human lives and livelihoods. During the last decade research concerning so called compound events has received more attention in the scientific community, as through the combination of weather or climate events their impacts may be far beyond their individual effects and therefore a better understanding of such phenomena is of great importance.

In this talk I will present insights into compound heat and air pollution events. I will explain why they can occur simultaneously, what consequences arise for human health and how we can protect our health.

Elke Hertig works at the intersection of health science and the environment and holds the chair for Regional Climate Change and Health at the University of Augsburg. A geographer and climatologist by training, she has expanded her research to include the health impacts of climatic factors (e.g. heat, ozone pollution) under current and future climate change. In a further research focus, she is concerned with the topic of climate and environmental factors of vector-borne diseases, i.e., the propagation of diseases spread by pathogen-carrying mosquitos.

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Beide Vorträge finden statt im WZU (Gebäude U), Raum 101, Universitätsstr. 1a (innocube).

Das gesamte Programm mit allen Terminen finden Sie hier:

https://rethinking-environment-idk.de/wp-content/uploads/24_10-Pl-Green-Hour_2_17-10-2024.pdf

Und hier erhalten Sie weitere Informationen zum Gesamtevent:

https://rethinking-environment-idk.de/event/the-green-hour-2024-25/