The Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and the Environment (CHE) invites you to the 2026 Graduate Student Symposium. Hosted by CHE’s Graduate Associate Organizing Committee, this year’s theme, Agency in the Anthropocene, invites participants to consider the ways in which agency intersects with the environment.
Join us for talks by graduate students across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, plus a keynote address from UW–Madison alumna Sarah Dimick.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Faculty, students, researchers, and community members are warmly invited to attend.
Schedule
Coming soon.
About Sarah Dimick
Sarah Dimick is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern University, jointly appointed in English and the Environmental Policy and Culture Program. Her research, based in Anglophone literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, focuses on literary portrayals of climate change and environmental justice.
Her first book, Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures, was published by Columbia University Press in 2024 and short-listed for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize. She co-edits the University of Virginia Press’s Under the Sign of Nature series.
Graduate Student Speakers
Coming soon.
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