The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

The Critical Social Science Search Committee of the Graduate Program of International Affairs at the New School invites you to attend following job talks for the Assistant Professor of International Affairs position. Your participation and feedback is valuable. 

Date and Time: Thursday March 11, 12-2pm

Location: A510

Title of Lecture: Uncertainty and Event in Climate Change and Green Energy Development

Candidate: Jerome Whitington 

Jerome Whitington (PhD, UC Berkeley) is a political anthropologist who specializes in transnational environmental issues. At Berkeley, he studied the continued viability of large infrastructure development in Laos and Thailand in light of serious challenges by transnational environmental movements. He has taught at the New School in GPIA and in Anthropology, and was a visiting scholar last year at Columbia University. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College where he has started research for a project on climate change. That project is titled The New Earth: Climate Change as a Human Problem. 

Students will have the opportunity to meet candidate from 4:30-5:00pm in room 609