Join the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian studies for an online talk on climate-related activism in Russia. 

The existential threat of climate change has inspired renewed intellectual engagement with the Anthropocene. Eurasian Studies are no exception to this trend. In the last decade, studies that grapple with the past, present and potential future of the human-nature dialectic are on the uptick. These studies have forced us to reconsider intellectual and ideological paradigms, sources, mission and role of scholar in society.

Nature’s Revenge: Ecology, Animals and Waste in Eurasia seeks to bring some of this scholarship and activism to a wider public through a series of live-recorded interviews. The goal is to illuminate recent scholarship and complicate our understanding of the Eurasian Anthropocene and its place in our world.

Registration is required and can be found at this link.

Speakers:

Konstantin Fokin, Russian climate activist

Angelina Davydova, head, German-Russian Office of Environmental Information; environmental journalist