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Seats are still available for Winter Quarter Environmental and Urban Studies (ENST) courses in The College, including a newly announced offering by Christopher Kindell.
Browse all our courses here: https://environmentalstudies.uchicago.edu/courses-winter-2023
Today at 4:30pm CT: Vulnerable Coastlines in an Era of Climate Emergencies, with Chandana Anusha, Rachel Gittman, and Liz Koslov. All are welcome.
Register here: http://ow.ly/PAvK50Lz1vq
UChicago students are encouraged to submit research posters for the 2023 Wild Things Conference, a biennial conference sponsored by the Forest Preserves of Cook County. Wild Things showcases the varied work of professionals and volunteers who champion the natural spaces of Illinois and the surrounding areas. On Saturday, February 25, 2023, nature lovers from around Illinois will gather at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL to spend a day learning how we can protect, understand, and celebrate our biodiverse treasures.
Posters that are accepted by the conference’s presentations committee will be on display throughout the conference and showcased during the conference’s closing happy hour.
Chicago Studies and CEGU are able to fund conference registration, poster printing, and transportation costs for students whose posters are accepted by the conference. Please fill out this form to submit your poster proposal: http://ow.ly/A1Mp50LBwoT
The deadline to submit a poster proposal is November 30. Please contact Tess Conway in Chicago Studies to submit poster acceptance and receive reimbursement information.
This Wednesday, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) welcomes Helge Jordheim for "Beyond Temporal Anthropocentrism: Koselleck and Natural History."
In this lecture, Jordheim offers a rereading of Reinhart Koselleck that puts his work at the center of ongoing debates about how to write histories that can account for humanity’s changed and changing relationship to our natural environment—or, in geological terms, to our planet. This involves engaging with the urgent realities of the climate crisis and the geological agency of humans, framed by the concept of the Anthropocene. Jordheim asks whether Koselleck’s essays from the 1970s and after contain ideas, arguments, theories, and methods that may prove useful in collapsing “the age-old humanist distinction between natural history and human history,” to use Dipesh Chakrabarty’s phrase. Thomas Newbold will be the discussant.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 5:00pm CT
Foster 107 (1130 E. 59th St.)
Register here: http://ow.ly/HgIf50LyYGO
Helge Jordheim explores how to write histories that can account for humanity’s changing relationship to our natural environment.
The historical geographies of extractivism and empire cut across the division between “Global North” and “Global South.” This roundtable brings together scholars working on the Russian and North American Arctic, Brazil, and Lebanon for a conversation across regions rarely placed in the same frame.
We will trace the surprising parallels and uncanny connections between histories of energy extraction and ecological transformation on very different colonial and capitalist resource frontiers. We will explore, too, sources of hope: the nodes of resistance and alternative imaginaries generated by projects of Indigenous and decolonial worldmaking. This event is part of the Environmental Studies Workshop and the Neubauer Collegium Project on Fossil Capitalism in the Global South, and additionally supported by the Urban Theory Lab and the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU).
This Friday, the Environmental Studies Workshop presents a special roundtable discussion: Global Souths / Native Norths. The panel features Bathsheba Demuth, Matthew P. Johnson, Owain Lawson, and Jen Rose Smith, and will be moderated by CEGU Faculty Elizabeth Chatterjee and Alexander Arroyo.
Friday, November 18, 12:00 PM CT
Harper 104 (1116 E. 59th St) & Zoom Webinar
Register here: cegu-2022-11-18.eventbrite.com
Please join us next Thursday for Vulnerable Coastlines in an Era of Climate Emergencies, featuring Chandana Anusha (Northwestern University), Rachel Gittman (East Carolina University), and Liz Koslov (UCLA). The event will be moderated by Michael Fisch.
Thursday, November 17, 2022
4:30-6:30pm CT
Classics 110 & Zoom Webinar
Register here: http://ow.ly/WmSP50LwH6G
As we move towards wrapping up Autumn Quarter, we're excited to share our Environmental and Urban Studies (ENST) course offerings for Winter 2023. Pre-registration is open from November 7 until November 11 at 5:00 PM. Add/drop opens December 5.
Course descriptions are available here: http://ow.ly/ZVuk50LwAgw
Sustainable Urban Development
ENST 20150
Making the Natural World: Foundations of Human Ecology
ENST 21301
Changing America in the Last 100 Years
Michael Conzen | ENST 22101
Undergraduate Research Seminar: Chicago Urban Morphology
Michael Conzen | ENST 25012
Environmental Justice in Principle and Practice
Raymond Lodato | ENST 26260
U.S. Environmental Policy
Raymond Lodato | ENST 24701
Cities, Space, Power: Introduction to Urban Social Science
Neil Brenner | ENST 20506
Researching Chicago's Historic Parks and Neighborhoods
ENST 20336
Cities by Design*
Evan Carver | ENST 26005
*This course will be taught at the University of Chicago Center in Paris.
UChicago undergrads: CEGU and PGE are seeking an undergraduate student social media intern to support on day-to-day communications across Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other digital media for the current year.
Apply here: http://ow.ly/rCbJ50LfC0W
Pease join CEGU and Chicago Studies tomorrow afternoon (10/7, 4:00–5:30pm) outside 1155 E. 60th St. (North Courtyard) to celebrate the 2022-23 academic year.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please join us for this year's first CEGU event—A Roundtable on Contemporary Environmental Crises: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities—featuring CEGU faculty Alexander Arroyo, Sarah Fredericks, Amir Jina, Sarah Newman, Jennifer Scappettone, and Sabina Shaikh.
Thursday, October 20, 4:30–6:30pm CT
SSRB Tea Room (1126 E. 59th St.) & Zoom Webinar
Please register in advance: cegu-2022-10-20.eventbrite.com
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Please join the student-run Phoenix Sustainability Initiative and Environmental Justice Task Force for a Climate and Environment Fair this Sunday at 4:30pm in the Ida Noyes Library.
Several RSOs, departments, and programs will be present, including one of CEGU's very own instructional assistants, Xixi Jiang, who will be sharing information about the ENST major and minor.
Great feature by UChicago College on the Calumet Quarter, offered in partnership with Chicago Studies.
Through guest speakers and weekly field trips through the Calumet region, students engaged in topics spanning urban ecology to regional planning
UChicago students, please consider registering for a special three-week-long Big Problems course taught by CEGU faculty member Jennifer Scappettone alongside Amber Ginsburg: Sensing the Anthropocene.
"In this [course], we will deploy those senses most overlooked in academic discourse surrounding aesthetics and urbanism-hearing, taste, touch, and smell-to explore the history and actuality of Chicago as a site of anthropogenic changes. Holding our classes entirely out of doors, we will move through the city seeking out and documenting traces of the city's foundations in phenomena such as the colonization of the ancestral homelands of the Three Fires Confederacy and trade routes of many other indigenous groups; the filling in of swamp; the redirection of the river; and the creation of transportation and industrial infrastructure-all with uneven effects on human and nonhuman inhabitants. Coursework will combine readings in history and theory of the Anthropocene together with examples of how artists and activists have made the Anthropocene visible and audible, providing forums for experimental documentation and annotations as we draw, score, map, narrate, sing, curate and collate our sensory experience of the Anthropocene."
This course is cross-listed as ENST 27700.
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PGE alum Saul Levin was featured in The New Yorker yesterday for his participation in recent climate action among aides on Capitol Hill. Read the full story here:
With climate legislation in peril and time running out, a group of young aides broke from a tradition of deference and staged a sit-in at Chuck Schumer’s office, demanding action.
There's still plenty of summer left, but we're excited nevertheless to be sharing our ENST course offerings for Autumn Quarter! Pre-registration opens August 1. pge.uchicago.edu/courses
We're pleased to announce that a brand new full-time staff position within the recently established Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU) is now open to applications. Please share widely!
We're seeking a highly organized and detail oriented student affairs administrator with excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills to join us as we continue to refine our undergraduate curricular offerings and simultaneously develop our very first graduate programs from the ground up.
Learn more and apply: https://uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Chicago-IL/Student-Affairs-Administrator---CEGU_JR17655-1
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Department SSD: Academic Administration: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU) is the culmination of a long-standing collaboration between the Program on the Global Environment (PGE), the Committee on Geographical Sciences....
WTTW News interviewed PGE Faculty Director Sabina Shaikh alongside Loyola University Chicago's Karen Weigert yesterday evening about the idea of climate migration, the inequities of climate crisis, and the diverse environmental challenges we face here in Cook County.
Watch the full segment here: https://news.wttw.com/2022/06/08/cook-county-desirable-destination-amid-climate-change-study-says
A new study concludes that Cook County has become one of the most desirable places for those escaping the extreme effects of climate change. Climate refugees seeking more stable environments look to cities across the Midwest. But is the Midwest really a safe haven?
Please join us in thanking Alicia Perez for serving PGE this year as our program administrator. Alicia's support has been invaluable in guiding students through our major and minor and making our Urban Lounge a welcoming place for our community. Thank you, Alicia!
UChicago Professor of Urbanism Emily Talen -- who we're pleased to call a member of PGE's faculty -- was interviewed by WBEZ recently on Chicago's public spaces.
Listen here: https://www.wbez.org/stories/why-arent-chicagos-public-spaces-more-like-europes/081cf942-0a4a-4f42-b223-7e6e79714b7a
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Places like Buckingham Fountain’s plaza are mostly empty. Why aren’t there any café tables, benches or coffee stands?
As Spring Quarter draws to a close, we invite you to the BA Thesis Symposium next Tuesday, May 31st, beginning at 9 am.
Join us as we celebrate the work of our phenomenal students.
Scroll through for the complete schedule of presentations and register to attend here: http://ow.ly/BS9h50JgRtp
REMINDER: Today at noon, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge is hosting Neil Brenner, Alexander Arroyo, and Grga Basic for "Visualizing Planetary Urbanization: Critical Spatial Media and the Critique of Urban Ideologies."
Register here: http://ow.ly/8ju250Ja8HP$
If the April 29th CEGU event "Animals, Territories, Environments” piqued your interest, then we have the reading list for you!
Scroll through to see titles referenced by panelists Mindi Schneider and Matthew Gandy and moderators Neil Brenner and Victoria Saramago.
Check out the complete reading list: https://environmentalstudies.uchicago.edu/cegu-reading-list-animals
This Friday is the Center for Spatial Data Science and UChicago Social Science's Geographic Science Student Research Day! Stop by for lightning talks, a poster session, and awards.
1155 E. 60th St., Room 140C and Zoom (hybrid event)
Friday, May 20, 1:00–3:00pm CT
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3kd6mLV
On Monday May 23rd at noon, join the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge for "Visualizing Planetary Urbanization: Critical Spatial Media and the Critique of Urban Ideologies," with PGE faculty and Urban Theory Lab researchers Neil Brenner, Alexander Arroyo, and Grga Basic.
Register here: http://ow.ly/IHpi50Ja7vM
On April 21st, the CEGU Faculty Working Group held another in a series of virtual panel discussions—Environment, Democracy, and Social Movements, with panelists Megan Black and Alyssa Battistoni. UChicago faculty (and CEGU affiliates) Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Lisa Wedeen moderated the conversation.
Time flies when you’re having fun, so if you missed the names, books, and articles the panelists mentioned, we have another handy reading list for those wanting to dive deeper.
Read it here: http://ow.ly/kbAS50J4gY8
Next Friday, May 13th, from 10am-3pm, stop by the DuSable Museum of African American History to celebrate Green City Day and to learn all about local efforts to support a greener future for Chicago.
The event will feature Microsoft's EcoPod and a number of organizations, including the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation.
Find more information here: http://ow.ly/emnb50IYkUt
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GIScience Student Research Day is May 20th from 1-3pm
The deadline to submit your abstract and to RSVP is May 13th .
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Last week, students from Imagining Pittsburgh’s Common Buildings, taught by Luke Joyner, traveled to Pittsburgh as part of their midterm review and research for their final projects. The course is an architectural studio that focuses on exploring the built environment of Pittsburgh and Chicago, with the final project centered around designing a common building within a neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
The images feature the three explorations that the students, accompanied by faculty and alumni, took part in to further their understanding of the city. Luke Joyner led his group of students to Meadowcroft/Old Economy, where they tried spear throwing and pottery. Meanwhile, Evan Carver’s group went on a bike tour of the city, with the final destination being an abandoned steel mill, where the group learned about Pittsburgh’s history with steel, the makings of steel, and the social history of the people who worked at the mills, and Nootan Bharani brought her group to Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous homes: Fallingwater and Kentuck K**b, as they hiked around the area and toured his architectural works.
Read the full trip recap: http://ow.ly/jbwz50IYaC5
We challenge our friends at Chicago Studies to a Writing Wednesday showdown.
Whoever writes the better six word story wins.
Stop by the Urban Lounge today from 3-5pm to work on your research or collaborative projects. Staff and faculty will be around to help out.
The Chicago Studies Research Prize is open for submissions!
The prize recognizes the high-quality, original research that undergraduates produce each year in BA thesis colloquia and seminars.
For a list of requirements and to submit your research: http://ow.ly/taXg50IUQJz
Celebrating research excellence (and free tote bags)
You don't want to miss the Undergraduate Research Symposium this Friday, May 6th!
Some of our spectacular ENST students will be presenting their research. Learn more here: http://ow.ly/B3Ai50IUH0Y
Friday, May 6, 2022 10:00 AM-12:00 PM CT: SESSION 1 1:00-3:00 PM CT: SESSION 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: In-person celebration reception on the Quad for presenters, faculty mentors, family and friends To access the virtual Symposium sessions (read abstracts, view posters, speak to presenters) click on the....
"If you encounter an environmental issue on the University of Chicago campus, chances are Phoenix Sustainability Initiative (PSI) is already working to improve it. From art installations, to on-campus composting, to a pop-up thrift shop to keep clothing out of landfills, the student organization is leading creative efforts to help build a better world."
We're always impressed by the efforts of UChicago students to make our campus greener.
Read the full article here: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/phoenix-sustainability-initiative-uchicago-students-organization-earth-day
Led by College undergraduates, Phoenix Sustainability Initiative promotes environmental awareness across campus life
Happy Arbor Day 🌳 🥳
Take a look at the University's tree inventory: http://ow.ly/2I4j50IUOQN
Where's your favorite tree on campus?
We're Bartlett Tree Experts No matter the size or scope of your tree and shrub needs, our experts bring a rare mix of local service, global resources and innovative tree care practices that makes your landscape thrive.
Along with Laura Merwin and Lauren Umek, PGE Assistant Instructional Professor Alison Anastasio recently published a paper on the unrealized ecological potential of urban post-industrial landscapes. Read it here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rec.13643
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Urbanized and post-industrial sites often host considerable biodiversity but are too frequently dismissed by conservation professionals, in part because current species assemblages differ from the si...
Tell your friends! Tell your classmates! Tell your favorite Trader Joe's cashier! Today is Writing Wednesday!
Stop by the Urban Lounge from 3-5pm to work on your BA-focused research or other projects. As always, faculty and staff will be around to advise writers, and coffee and cookies will be available for moral support.
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The launch of Issue 2 of Expositions Magazine is tomorrow! Join student leaders, authors, and editors on April 28th, 12-1:30pm, in the Urban Lounge to celebrate this great accomplishment!
CISSR Bi-Weekly Digest: April 26 - https://mailchi.mp/uchicago/cissrdigest-6326909
On Monday, May 2nd, join us for a lunch and learn with Saul Levin, Policy Advisor to Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO - 01). Saul will talk about his journey from PGE to Capitol Hill and his work on climate justice policy and strategy including the Green New Deal for Cities, the Public Power Resolution, and the Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act. He'll also discuss his work to improve transparency in Congress and his team's efforts to bring organizing strategy to a place known for its rugged individualism.
Register here: http://ow.ly/jcfu50IMO4w
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