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Climate Action: Inspiring Change
June 16, 2022
How can we transform the climate crisis into hope for our shared future? Peabody Essex Museum’s timely exhibition brings together dynamic contemporary art, hands-on experiences and inspiring works by youth artists to help guide us toward making a difference for the planet. On view in the Dotty Brown Art & Nature Center, this exhibition highlights local and regional climate issues and opportunities. Most of the 30 featured artists are based in New England — including works by 10 award-winning youth who participated in the Climate Hope: Transforming Crisis international student art contest in 2020 organized by Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs. The exhibition will be on view April 16, 2022 through June 25, 2023. Museum hours are Thursdays, Saturdays & Sundays 10 am–5 pm and Fridays 10 am-7 pm.
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Peabody Essex Museum, Dotty Brown Art & Nature Center

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Webinar: History & Literature in an Extractive Age
June 23, 2022
Registration required. See link below. How might historical narratives and literary analyses help us better make sense of the intensive extraction of the Earth’s resources that underlies our modern era? In this discussion, historian of science Victor Seow (Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University; Author of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia) and literary scholar Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (Professor of English, UC Davis; Author of Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion) will draw upon their recently published books to reflect on the centrality of humanistic inquiry to our confrontation with the confluent crises of our present. They will be joined in conversation by Karen L. Thornber, the Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
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Virtual via Zoom
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm