The annual Donald R. Benson Memorial Lecture will be held in Curtiss 0127 on April 4 from 6-7:30pm. This year’s speaker is Dr. Hunter Vaughan Senior Research Associate (Associate Professor), University of Cambridge: “Beyond Ecocriticism: Environmental Humanities in the Age of Climate Crisis”.
Light refreshments will be served.

Vaughan is an environmental media scholar and a cultural historian at the University of Cambridge. He has done innovative work on the environmental impacts of film production and is the author of Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Columbia University Press, 2019) and the co-editor of Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis (Palgrave, 2022). He was a 2017 Rachel Carson Center Fellow and is a co-founding editor (with Meryl Shriver-Rice) of the Journal of Environmental Media ​(Intellect Press). He is the co-director of the AHRC-funded Global Green Media Network, co-principal investigator on the Sustainable Subsea Networks project funded by the Internet Society Foundation, and a member of the Convening Team for the UNFCCC’s Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action initiative.