Join us Tuesday, April 17 from 12:30 until 2:00 in the lab (room 7388.01) for presentations by:

Sheehan Moore, Anthropology:

This project examines images that claim representational authority over future landscapes in southern Louisiana. These images include maps and digital renderings of disappeared coastlines, subsiding lands, and underwater Main Streets – topographies that do not yet exist but that nevertheless demand action in the present. They enter circulation in urgent news stories and fifty year urban master plans, and they are magnets for words like ‘resilience’ and ‘retreat.’ At public planning meetings, predictive maps that stage the parish landscape over coming decades are important guides for community decision-making. In order to better understand these risky images, the futures they purport to represent, and their effects in the present, this project asks after the kinds of data sets and attendant assumptions that go into mapping these not-yet-existent landscapes. What inclusions and omissions make them possible? What contingencies or uncertainties are elided? These questions can help us understand how representations of climate futures set the parameters for action and imagination.

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Federico Di Pasqua, Classics:

Introduction to Classical Cultures is a video-podcast series about the Classics that features motion graphic design to provide a smart and enjoyable overview of Greek and Latin literature. The series is aimed to update the teaching approach of the classics, bringing it closer to the rest of the humanities. Subjects of the podcast-series will be the works of the most important Classical authors, which largely coincide with the course “Classical Cultures” offered in most universities in the United States. The six videos—three about Greek authors, three about Latin authors­—will cover the major literary genres of antiquity and will be in chronological order, so as to offer a general overview on Classical culture.