Today November 19 at 4:00pm in UConn’s Konover Auditorium, the Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment presents Dr. Robert Nixon, The Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University.

Dr. Nixon will explore the imaginative and political challenges posed by slow violence, by the incremental casualties that shadow our most pressing environmental crises. His talk will focus on activists and artists who are responding with an urgent creativity to the challenge of representing unspectacular environmental violence in a spectacle-obsessed age.

A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Dr. Nixon’s writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, The Nation, The Guardian, and Outside.  His book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor has received several awards since its publication in 2011, including American Book Award, the 2012 Sprout prize from the International Studies Association for the best book in environmental studies, the 2012 Interdisciplinary Humanities Award for the best book to straddle disciplines in the humanities; and the 2013 biennial ASLE Award for the best book in environmental literary studies.

Co-sponsored by UConn’s Teale Series, Junior Faculty Forum of the Humanities Institute, and the Dodd Research Center, the event is free and open to the public.  

Since 1995, UConn presents the award-winning Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series that brings distinguished speakers to the University to speak in public lectures on various aspects of nature and the environment.  The Lecture Series is named in honor of the Pulitzer-prize winning naturalist and author, Edwin Way Teale, whose vast archive of literary manuscripts, letters, diaries and photographs is preserved and accessible at UConn’s Archives and Special Collections.