Events & Outreach

HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Multispecies Mutual Ecologies: People and Primates Recasting the Anthropocene Dynamic”

Agustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology, will present “Multispecies Mutual Ecologies: People and Primates Recasting the Anthropocene Dynamic” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Fuentes is the second speaker in the fall 2022 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.

Human-driven responses to current climate and ecological crises are many and varied and, in some instances, do more harm than good. Fuentes will draw on biocultural, ethnographic, demographic and ecological examples to argue for a more inclusive, integrative, and transdisciplinary approach to addressing planetary challenges that decenters mainstream human ecological tactics and recognizes multispecies mutual ecologies to evolve more optimistic views for the future.

This seminar is free and open to the public with registration. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.

Additional dates and speakers in this series are below.

SEPTEMBER 20

“Ancient Bubbles Tell Future Climate Stories” — John Higgins, Associate Professor of Geosciences

NOVEMBER 1

“Disease in Motion and Landscapes of Health“ — C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs

DECEMBER 6

“The Urbasphere: How Humans, Infrastructure and Nature Shape the Emerging Environment of Cities” — Elie Bou-Zeid, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering