TRASH TALKS: Lectures and Conversations

You Study What?!
On Becoming a Scholar of Trash
February 29 | 6:00 p.m.
Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

A conversation with author Robin Nagle and Dean William Cohen about how scholars find and shape research projects on unusual subjects.

Terra Blight
March 8 | 6:30 p.m.
1100 Cambridge Community Center

A screening of Isaac Brown’s award-wining documentary, which follows the life cycle of computers, from raw materials to landfills. https://vimeo.com/20631750

Agricultural Waste on the Eastern Shore
April 7 | 6:00 p.m.
Location TBD

A panel discussion of the impact of chicken farm waste.

Gravity
May 10 | 8:00 p.m.
1100 Cambridge Community Center

A screening of Alfonso Cuarón‘s film on what happens when space junk and human space flight collide.

Thanks to the Office of Undergraduate Studies for its support of the trash theme and related events.