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Inaugural Lecture - John Davidson

John Davidson
February 18, 2015
All Day
Faculty Club Grand Lounge

John Davidson presents "Ecological Visions in Post-WWII Germany" as part of the 2014-2015 Arts and Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series.

Increasingly, scholars stress the need for integrating the social sciences and humanities in global environmental change research to counteract conceptions about the environment descended from the decades following WWII. This presentation returns to the art and thought of the “late modernist” period (1946-82) to ask about the role of aesthetic works –- especially moving and still film images –- in reorienting ourselves to the environment. While some modernist theories of the post-WWII era left much to be desired in their approach to the environment, late modernism exhibits complexly intertwined responses to technology and progress that remain of value.

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