Ecological Design Collective | Kristin Brig-Ortiz | Activity https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/members/kristin/activity/ Activity feed for Kristin Brig-Ortiz. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:02:21 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 d8734a2ba15880d06b687fd252dff4e8 Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: We're taking a short break to recover from the semester […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4479/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:26:16 -0400 We’re taking a short break to recover from the semester and will be back on Monday, May 20th at 2pm EST! We’ll be kicking off our summer meeting schedule with selections from Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021). I’ll upload the PDFs to our folder when I have them.

We’ll see you next month!

]]> 0 0c1d7958ba5a5a4140360649ebc426fd Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: On Monday, April 22 (Earth Day), we will be meeting […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4396/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:30:02 -0400 On Monday, April 22 (Earth Day), we will be meeting from 2-3pm EST to discuss Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 (2015). We’ll focus on Part IV, but feel free to read the whole book.

We’ll use our EDC video room as usual. See you there!

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The Age of the Crisis of Man

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury America

]]> 0 957020fcd8cd47f3282173209f14a9f3 Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: On Monday, April 1, at 2pm EST, we will be discussing […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4305/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:35:13 -0400 On Monday, April 1, at 2pm EST, we will be discussing Adam Kirch’s newest book, The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us (2023). We’ll be in our video room. See you then!

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The Revolt Against Humanity ยท Columbia Global Reports

Should we welcome the end of humanity? In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously … Continue reading

]]> 0 58d3835c304ab1eddd1460c1a8f36aac Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4259/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:54:08 -0400 0 403853b84f99e513b99a79797da9ec12 Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: Our next meeting is on Monday, March 18th from 2-3pm EST […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4255/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:53:16 -0400 Our next meeting is on Monday, March 18th from 2-3pm EST in our virtual room. We will be discussing anthropologist Jana Kopelent-Rehak’s recent work on aging and environmental issues on Smith Island, in the Chesapeake Bay. You can find the documents for discussion under our “Documents” tab.

See you there!

]]> 0 28268a783a56e59d7a5731699cab947f Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: We're next meeting a week from today, on March 4, at […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4185/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:32:21 -0500 We’re next meeting a week from today, on March 4, at 10am EST!

We’ll be delving into Naveeda Khan’s new book, River Life and the Upspring of Nature (2023), which looks at the ecology of the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, through the life of the chauras who live and work on its sandbars.

As last time, we’ll meet in our personal video room. Can’t wait…

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Duke University Press - River Life and the Upspring of Nature

Duke University Press - River Life and the Upspring of Nature

]]> 0 9ee413354089e5f60e314ebfb0d4ab55 Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: This coming Monday (Feb 19) at 10am EST, we're […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4094/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:35:07 -0500 This coming Monday (Feb 19) at 10am EST, we’re discussing James Blair’s Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (2023).

Don’t have access to the book but want to read along? Message me for PDF chapters!

We’ll use our EDC video room, which you can find on our group page.

See you then!

]]> 0 7d60a802916eda75282cb331467bb968 Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: Hello EDC! We've been quite late at getting ourselves […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3727/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:47:01 -0500 Hello EDC! We’ve been quite late at getting ourselves set up on this site, but we’re excited to be here and to share our events with everyone!

On Monday, Dec 11, at 2pm EST, we’re meeting for the final time of the semester to discuss Donna Haraway’s The Companion Species Manifesto (2003). Whether you would can join the conversation or not,…

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