MC²: Michigan & The Climate Crisis | The University Confronts the Future
October 2-8, 2017
All events are free and open to the public
October 2, 2017 – MC²: Michigan & The Climate Crisis Opening Ceremony
“The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art”
Location: Dana Building Commons, 440 Church Street
Time: 4:00-6:00pm*; refreshments and appetizers served during event
- Art exhibit For The Climates They are A-Changin’ created and curated by Sara Adlerstein Gonzalez, Art & Environment Gallery of the School for Environment and Sustainability
- Cello performance Losing our Wander: A Portrait of Natural Michigan in the Anthropocene by Kayla Mathes, Senior Undergraduate, School of Music, Theater and Dance & Program in the Environment
- Poetry performance by Sandra Steingraber, Environmental Activist, Author, and U-M Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Alum
*Exhibit open to public Monday-Friday, October 2-November 30 from 9am-7pm
October 3, 2017 – Davis, Market, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom
“The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump”
Location: Honigman Auditorium, Hutching Hall, 625 State Street
Time: 4:00-5:15pm
- Michael E. Mann, Distinguish Professor of Atmospheric Science, Pennsylvania State University
October 3, 2017 – Discussion Panel: History and Politics of Climate Change
Location: 1040 Dana Building, 440 Church Street
Time: reception at 6:00 PM; discussion 7:00-8:30pm
- Ben Iuliano, Divest Invest group member representative, University of Michigan
- Stephen Mulkey, Unity College President Emeritus
- Theresa Ong, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Alum
- Sandra Steingraber, Environmental Activist, Author, and U-M Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Alum
October 4, 2017 – Special Lecture
“Higher Education During the Great Disruption”
Location: 1040 Dana Building, 440 Church Street
Time: 12:00-1:00pm; lunch provided
- Stephen Mulkey, Unity College President Emeritus
October 4, 2017 – Museum of Natural History Science Café
“Oil and soil, forces of climate change”
Location: Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 318 South Main Street
Time: hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 PM; program 6:00-7:30 PM
- Jennifer Blesh, Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
- Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History, History Department
October 5, 2017 – 16th Peter M. Wege Lecture on Sustainability
“Down to the Wire: A Hot Fight in a Hot World”
Location: Hill Auditorium, 825 N University Ave
Time: 5:00-6:30pm; book signing with Literati after lecture
- Bill McKibben, Environmentalist-Educator, founder of 350.org
October 7, 2017 – Saturday Morning Physics
“The Arctic and the Tropics: Worlds Apart, Both Amplifying Climate Change”
Location: 170 & 182 Weiser Hall, 500 Church St
Time: 10:30-11:30am; refreshments served from 9:55-10:20am
- George Kling, Robert G. Wetzel Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Ivette Perfecto, George W. Peck Professor of Ecology, School for Environment and Sustainability
October 8, 2017 – Performance
Climate change through poetry and music
Location: Silvio’s Organic Ristorante e Pizzeria, 715 N University Ave
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Performers: Open to the U-M student and Ann Arbor community