September 4 – Lecture 1
Ben Franklin Statue – College Hall
Noon
What We Need Now to Stop Global Warming
Paul Sniegowski
Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Biology
How Do We Know How Bad It Will Get?
Michael Weisberg
Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Death of Carbon
Daniel Aldana Cohen
Assistant Professor of Sociology; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative
Predicting the Future of Our Climate
Irina Marinov
Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
Time to Stop Flying
Megan Ryerson
UPS Chair of Transportation and Associate Dean for Research, Stuart Weitzman School of Design
September 11 – Lecture 2
Ben Franklin Statue – College Hall
Noon
Less a Puzzle to Solve Than a Decision to Make
Mark Alan Hughes
Professor of Practice and Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
An Astrophysicist’s View of Earth’s Climate
Gary Bernstein
Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
I’m Sensing Climate Change, What’s Your Story?
Bethany Wiggin
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities
Presented with April Anson, Mellon PPEH Postdoc | Meg Arenberg, PPEH Managing Director | Lucy Corlett, C’20 | Rachel Ishikawa, PPEH Program Coordinator | Margaret Janz, Scholarly Communication and Data Curation Librarian, Penn Libraries
Adapting our Cities for Climate Change: Revolution or Evolution?
Howard Neukrug
Professor of Practice and Executive Director, The Water Center
Businesses That “Get It” on Climate Change Must Also Get Political
Eric Orts
Guardsmark Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics; and Director, Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership
September 18 – Lecture 3
Ben Franklin Statue – College Hall
Noon
African American Literature’s Aberrant Weather
Herman Beavers
Professor of English and Africana Studies
Oil Is not Forever
Nikhil Anand
Associate Professor of Anthropology
On the Urgency of Ecological Grief
Paul Saint-Amour
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Chair of English
Will the Mongolian Steppe Step up to Climate Change?
Brenda Casper
Professor of Biology
Presented with Christopher Carlson, C’20, and Bonnie Mendelson, C’20
The Climate Patient’s Bill of Rights
Simon Richter
Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Presented with Kimberlie Dupiton, C’22, and Brea Watkins, C’22
September 25 – Lecture 4
Ben Franklin Statue – College Hall
Noon
Cleaner Living Through Chemistry
Karen Goldberg
Vagelos Professor in Energy Research
Plant Trees Strategically and Wisely
Frederick Steiner
Dean of Stuart Weitzman School of Design; Paley Professor; and Co-Executive Director, The McHarg Center
Origins of Climate Change and Global Warming: What’s Next?
Joseph Francisco
President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
The Effects of Climate Change on Food and Agriculture
Tom Daniels
Professor of City and Regional Planning
Student Perspectives
Jacob Hershman, C’20
Fossil Free Penn
Vyshnavi Kosigishroff, C’22
Student Sustainability Association at Penn
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