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The Philosophy Department is pleased to co-sponsor the UMass History Department's 2020-21 Feinberg Series. The series will host nine major public events featuring internationally renowned scholars and movement leaders speaking on the theme, Planet on a Precipice: Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency. Events address the historical origins of ecological destruction and mass extinction; the implications of these phenomena for human and nonhuman survival and ways of life; the role of human politics; the connections between the environmental emergency and histories of capitalism, colonialism, genocide, and white supremacy; human entanglements with the nonhuman world; and the past, present, and future of resistance movements. 

The series seeks to deepen our understanding of this singularly important set of problems and to envision constructive paths forward. Speakers will include organizers from the climate movement, writers, artists, filmmakers, and a wide variety of scholars and policy experts. Fall 2020 events, and potentially Spring 2021 events, will occur remotely. All events are free and open to everyone.

For more information, please visit the series website or email feinberg@history.umass.edu.