Wednesday, October 5, 2016
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
TANG Payne
Event Type
Lecture
Contact
Department
Environmental Studies
Link
http://ems.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=14510
Jennifer Jacquet, an Assistant Professor of Environmental
Studies at New York University, delivers this year's keynote lecture for
the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program. Her talk, entitled Guilt,
Shame, and Climate Change, will explore the use of shame to
promote large-scale political and social reform.
This
event is part of A More Perfect Union and is sponsored by the Skidmore College Environmental
Studies and Sciences Program. This lecture is free and open to the public.
About
Jennifer Jacquet
Jennifer Jacquet is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Environmental Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on the
social science of cooperation dilemmas, with specific interests in overfishing
and climate change. Her “wonderful, important, and timely” (Brian Eno, Long Now
Foundation) book, Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool, is
“an intellectually stimulating discussion of shame and its enduring place in
the digital age” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). She is also the author of
more than twenty scientific publications in places like Biology Letters and Nature
Climate Change. Her research has been covered by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria,
Morgan Freeman’s television series Through the Wormhole, Nature
News, The New York Times, The Independent, Discover, New
Scientist, and The Washington Post.
In February 2016, Jacquet received a Pew Fellowship in
Marine Conservation to examine the feasibility of altering fisheries policies
on the high seas. The $150,000 award, given by The Pew Charitable Trusts,
will support Jacquet’s three-year project to develop policies to address
overfishing.