Seminar

September 2025

Energy Cafe

Title: Altered landscapes of a post‑carbon future: Visual response imaginaries as experiences of energy infrastructure in the Orkney Islands Host: Neil Gordon Davey This presentation explores how residents of the Orkney Islands visually and emotionally respond to renewable energy infrastructure. Based on a year of visual ethnographic research, it introduces the concept of ‘visual response imaginaries’ – […]
23 Sep
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
October 2025

Governing the Unseen: U.S. Nuclear Waste Futures & the Geocultural License to Operate

Join cultural anthropologist and former U.S. Department of Energy official Vincent Ialenti for a fireside chat on American nuclear waste policy. During the Biden Administration, Dr. Ialenti served as Federal Manager for DOE’s Consent-Based Siting Consortia: twelve project teams – drawn from academia, nonprofits, the private sector, and beyond – awarded $24m to build community […]
10 Oct
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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