Join New Yorker contributor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, visiting scholar in English and Theater at Portland State University, for a discussion of theater's role in transforming our environmental imagination. How can stories on stage offer new visions for our relationship to the places we inhabit and rehearse possibilities for collective action? And how might the Cherokee playwright and lawyer Mary Kathryn Nagle, with whom Dr. Pollack-Pelzner is collaborating on a documentary about indigenous sovereignty, offer a model for combining art and activism?

This talk is part of the Environmental Humanities and Social Justice Public Speaker Series, connecting new curriculum to broader conversations about climate crisis as we work to reimagine our relationship to place and those who share it. For more information about the Environmental Humanities initiative at Reed, visit our website.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Environmental Humanities Initiative at Reed.