On Environment with Joshua Shannon: “How and Why to Look at Art in the Time of Climate Change”
Lecture Series
29.01.2025 at 18:30
Location: A125, LMU Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich
This lecture will be given by Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland, College Park).
Drawn from the first chapter of the book How and Why to Look at Art in the Time of Climate Change: Seven Lessons from Modern Art, which Shannon is currently writing, this talk asks what contemporary climate art has to offer our civilization. The lecture will look especially closely at art that breaks out of the categories of our usual climate discourse, helping us both to perceive the reality of climate change and to build the belief structures necessary for a sustainable future.
This event is part of the lecture series “On Environment.” The series is organized by the Chair of Environmental Humanities at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
Environment is a broad conceptual idea with a history and many meanings. Today, the term is used ubiquitously. We are closely connected to what surrounds us and live in an environment more and less shaped by humans. In this series of lectures scholars from different disciplines address the concept, providing a lens into what it may mean to think environmentally.