Event Category: FIGS

Cherpack Lounge Throughout the polar world, aesthetics play a key role in legal environmental safeguards, but as our world and its climate rapidly change, the force of these provisions is quickly disappearing. Analyzing depictions of icebergs, this talk theorizes a new concept—the “melting sublime”— to help those wielding environmental law fight back against environmental threats […]

Wolf Humanities Conference Room, 623 Williams Hall Hospitals only became an institution for the middle class in the early 20th century. In Austria-Hungary, the construction of clinics boomed from the 1860s onward. The modern hospital, however, was viewed with mixed feelings from the outset. This talk examines the skeptical attitudes towards hospitals that accompanied their […]