Environmental sciences, social sciences, and the humanities hinge on the politics of time: From recording and predicting environmental change over time, to intervening to halt and reverse the effect of time, to “running out of time” to prevent climate change, and to imagining alternative environmental futures. Despite the common invocation that time is universal, monolithic, and constant, time has been experienced, represented, and understood very differently across generations, societies, species, and geographies. In these troubling times, it is more urgent than ever to trouble time.
Building on Edge Effects’ recent special series, the annual 2025 CHE interdisciplinary symposium will identify, disentangle, and challenge the intersection of temporality, power, culture, and the environment in order to re-imagine environmental pasts, presents, and futures.
The symposium will feature a faculty panel discussion on the political dimensions of time with Samer Alatout, Sara Hotchkiss, Maria Lepowsky, and Frédéric Neyrat. Graduate students will share their research across three exciting panels, bridging literary studies, landscapes, and empire. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Everyone is welcome! Sign up by March 8 to help us order an appropriate amount of food.