The Activist Humanist: Strategies and Models for New Climate Futures

The Activist Humanist : Forms and Method in the Climate CrisisJoin us in a robust conversation,Saturday, August 24th, @climateimaginarium on @governorsisland to learn how creatives can offer strategies and practical models of collective action for the future we seek to build. We’ll be happening from 2-4pm following @climatecafe.eco at 1-2pm.In her thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case that humanists have the tools to mobilize political power—and the responsibility to use those tools to avert the worst impacts of global warming. She identifies three major infrastructural forms crucial to sustaining collective life: routines,pathways, and enclosures. Crisscrossing between art works and public works - from urbantransportation to television series and from food security programs to rhyming couplets —she considers which forms might support stability and predictability in the face of our climate altered future.

• Caroline Levine, author of "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis” and Professor of Humanities, Cornell University. Her prior books include: "Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts"; and "Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network."
• Ben Mylius, PhD (Environmental Political Theory), Columbia University and Postdoctoral Fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics, Stanford University.
• Lydia Dean Pilcher, award-winning filmmaker, cultural strategist, and Professor of Climate Storytelling and the Arts, Columbia University.