Spring Possibility Studies Lecture with Caroline Levine

Spring Possibility Studies Lecture with Prof. Caroline Levine (Cornell University, USA) 

March 13th, 2024 

15 -16 GMT

Title: A Tale of Three Pipelines: Locking in the Future

Abstract: 

It is urgent to stop the building of new gas and oil pipelines now, since these lock us into a future of fossil fuel dependency. But are pipelines only pathways of destruction and injustice? Not necessarily. “A pipe can carry fresh water as well as toxic sludge,” as Winona LaDuke puts it. This talk looks at a range of pipelines designed to shape collective life into the future—and it pushes beyond fossil fuels to focus on water systems organized for collective justice, and on career pipelines intended to work against white supremacy.

Bio: 

Caroline Levine is David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University and author of four books, including Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015) and The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (2023). She was on the team that pressured Cornell to divest its endowment from fossil fuels in 2020 and now serves on the coordinating committee of TIAA-Divest.