7th MIT Global Humanities Forum on “PILLAR 5: Environment, Biodiversity & Planetary Stewardship” on Feb 13 (online)

Dear colleagues, students, and friends,

Join us for the 2026 GHI 7th Forum! This session introduces the GHI Pillar Environment, Biodiversity & Planetary Stewardship, in particular two projects Thermal Worlds: A Deep History of the Human Relationship to Cold and Warmth and Ruination and Repair: The Long Human Afterlife of Environmental Disaster.

7th GHI Forum

• Title:  Environment, Biodiversity & Planetary Stewardship
• Date: Feb 13, 2026, 10:00–11:30 AM EST
• Where: Online (Zoom Registration Link: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/CGiHfwLpTxSAgzCTgqVptw)
• Speakers: Tristan G Brown, Or Porath 

【Abstract】

Our presentation, introducing GHI’s Environment and Planetary Stewardship Pillar, examines how human communities understand and inhabit a rapidly changing planet. In an era of climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and ecological degradation, the pillar brings humanistic methods into conversation with sustainability science, energy studies, earth systems, and policy. We study how literature, religion, law, art, and ritual shape ecological perception and guide responses to crisis, adaptation, and repair. By tracing patterns of resilience and injustice across places and periods, the initiative asks how cultural meaning can inform more equitable forms of stewardship, and how narrative and ethics can transform debates on sustainability and climate futures today.

Looking forward to seeing you at our events!

The GHI Team