Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Theater and Climate Change
Instructor(s): Lisa Jackson-Shebetta, Theater
An exploration of the relationship among theater, representations of climate change, and environmental advocacy and education. 小福利导航 will grapple with questions such as How are the limitations of theater particularly (and, perhaps, counter-intuitively) well-suited to represent the effects of climate change? What is the role of the theatrical imagination in environmental activism? How is theater in the 小福利导航 addressing and incorporating sustainable art-making practices? 小福利导航 will engage with both theater practice and scholarship. Using theater as a compass, students will examine how distinct fields (philosophy, history, gender studies, political science, film and media studies, anthropology) work together to illuminate鈥攁nd resist鈥攅nvironmental collapse.
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