Knowledge-Making in an Age of Uncertainty

October 24 Thursday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center

Mary-Louise-Pratt

Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor (emerita), Department of Social and Cultural Analysis & Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies, New York University, in conversation with Jennifer French, Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies and Spanish at Williams College

Climate change has introduced uncertainty and unpredictability into many aspects of existence on the planet, including the conditions for knowledge-making in institutions like university. The sciences and the humanities are being challenged and destabilized in ways that are both frightening and exhilarating for knowledge-makers and artists. We will discuss this unfolding state of affairs, in the larger context of the radical “turns” that have made the past five decades an extraordinary period of intellectual and creative ferment.

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