Kenyon's Climate Teach-In seeks to educate, raise awareness, and build community momentum towards further climate related education and action. It will be held on Monday, Sept. 23, and Tuesday, Sept. 24, during a week of international climate strikes.
During the teach-in, students in participating classes will be out and visible on campus during their normal class hours. You can find classes on the south end of Middle Path, the Science Quad and many other places, where they will be presenting the ideas and findings they developed during class discussions of the climate emergency. You will see everything from dance classes, religious studies classes and chemistry classes showing how their respective disciplines approach climate change.
| Time | Topic | Faculty/STAFF | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:10 - 9 | Genetics and climate change | Slonczewski | Science Quad |
| 10:10 - 11:30 | Site specific movement response to themes of climate change, readings. | Craig-Quijada | TBD |
| 11 - 12 | Climate crisis in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | Lobanov-Rostovsky | TBD |
| 11 - 12 | Climate change as a philosophical problem | Xiao | Middle Path |
| 11:10 - 12 | Sustainable nutrition choices and the impact of food on the environment | Heithaus, E. | South Middle Path |
| 11:10 - 12 12:10 - 1 |
Statistics on climate change | Milnikel | TBD |
| 11:10 - 12 12:10 - 1 |
Statistics on climate change | Murnen | TBD |
| 12 - 1:30 | Building an effective climate change movement | Van Holde | Large private dining room, Peirce Hall |
| 1:10 - 4 | Climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation for global food production | Hottle | Timberlake 5 |
| 1:10 - 2 | The Glocal: specificity and planetary context | Tierney | Middle Path |
| 1:10 - 2 | Night time temperature and human sleep loss in a changing climate | White | TBD |
| 2 - 3 | The sense of things as a key concept in eco-philosophy | Xiao | Middle Path |
| 2:10 - 3:30 | Site-specific movement response to themes of climate change | Radella | TBD |
| Time | Topic | Faculty/STAFF | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:10 - 9:30 | Meditation, honoring trees, future action, arising from Buddhist response to ecology and right action toward living beings | Brennan | South Middle Path |
| 9:40 - 11 | Personal reflections on climate impacts | Alexander | TBD |
| 9:40 - 11 | Environmental racism, specifically Cancewr Alley | Schortman, Urban | TBD |
| 11:10 - 12 | Gund Associate Talk: "Contemporary Art and Consumer Waste" / PB&J special: ecology, food sources and consumer habits | Kovach | Gund Gallery |
| 11:10 - 12 | Climate change impacts int he Amazon, Middle East and East Asia | Van Holde | Tomsich 101 |
| 1 - 2:30 | Knox County 101 | Hardy | TBD |
| 1:10 - 2:30 | Ecology, climate and interdependence | Brennan | TBD |
| 1:10 - 4 | Understanding the four RCP scenarios and imagining these futures | Getzler | TBD |
| 1:10 - 2:30 | Introduction to and activity growing from "The Overstory" by Richard Powers | Heidt | TBD |
| 1:10 - 2:30 | Site-specific movement response to themes of climate change | Radella | TBD |
| 2:40 - 4 | Impacts of sea level rise | Alexander | TBD |
| 2:40 - 4 | Site-specific movement response to themes of climate change | Brodie | TBD |
| 2:40 - 4 | Introduction to and activity growing from "The Overstory" by Richard Powers | Heidt | TBD |