Postnatural Landscapes
Ancient agricultural practices in the American Bottom were significant in the shaping of the landscapes and foodscapes that exist today. (...)
Two Breezes
Punkahs brought climate control into the American South from early on, using enslaved peoples to laboriously fan plantation owners in the summer heat. (...)
In Situ Anthropocene
What can the Mississippi River Valley teach us about how to read the planetary shifts of the Anthropocene through its local waterways and landscapes? (...)
How did human activity alter the Mississippi Basin?
As an effect of human intervention, the former prairie of the Mississippi region has been turned into agricultural farmland. But what are the energy-based effects of land use changes? (...)
The Aerocene, London 2016
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Technosphere, Berlin 2015–19
The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene. (...)
The Early Rise of North America's Dominant Crop
How have early agricultural practices shaped and altered the environment of the Mississippi? This research project turns to the cultivation of maize to tackle this question. (...)
Environmental Geochemistry of River Sediments
What do the layers of river sedimentation reveal about the human impact on the Mississippi river system? (...)
Monsanto Town
In what ways is the Anthropocene embodied in communities and everyday life? An introduction to the conflicting histories of Sauget, Illinois, formerly known as Monsanto Town. (...)
Anthropocene and the Media
In the context of the seminar “Anthropocene and the Media,” students of new media theorist John Kim have developed diverse approaches and perspectives of examining the Mississippi River in relation to the Anthropocene. (...)
Sounding the Mississippi
Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations. (...)
Seminar: Claims/Property
This seminar engages the complicated entanglements of property claims that cut across the social, racial, and ecological landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, as they pertain to the Anthropocene. (...)
Seminar: Clashing Temporalities
This seminar brings concepts of time, layers, and sediment into close contact with the human sciences, the arts, and Pierre Part, a community who live according to the movements of the River. (...)
Seminar: Commodity Flows
The relations between extraction, synthesis, and exploitation, and the effects of commodity dependencies across scales are explored in this seminar, by mapping commodity flows and energy cycles in the Mississippi basin. (...)
Seminar: Exhaustion and Imagination
Focusing on the limits—and opportunities—exhaustion engenders, in this seminar the difficulties of being out of energy and out of ideas will be related to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene. (...)
Seminar: Risk/Equity
The articulation of risk assessment and management as being at the heart of environmental justice is the focus of this seminar, which explores the paired concepts of risk and equity through lived experiences. (...)
Seminar: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
The role of engineering river systems toward human aims and the consequences this has on multiple scales is the key concern of this seminar. (...)
Anthropocene River School
The Anthropocene River School integrates the work of the Anthropocene River Field Stations and transforms the research into an ongoing, collaborative teaching enterprise. (...)