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'Watermark,' Film Screening and Discussion, 8:00 pm on Friday, November 3

10/27/2017

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The Georgetown Mellon Sawyer Seminar, 'Approaching the Anthropocene' will  be screening Watermark (Burtynsky and Baichwal 2013) on the evening of November 3, at 8:00 pm in New South 156. The film will be followed by a reception and discussion with art historian Dr. Rina Faletti (Global Arts, UC Merced). 
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Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky. 

The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We see massive floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast and the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world – the Xiluodu, six times the size of the Hoover. We visit the barren desert delta where the mighty Colorado River and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka.We witness how humans are drawn to water, from the U.S. Open of Surfing to the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, where millions of people gather for a sacred bath in the Ganges. We speak with scientists who drill ice cores deep into the Greenland Ice Sheet, and explore the sublime pristine watersheds of Northern British Columbia. Shot in stunning 5K ultra high-definition video and full of soaring aerial perspectives, this film shows water as a terraforming element, as well as the magnitude of our need and use.
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Interdisciplinary Symposium, 'Bodies/Water: Knowledge and the Hydrosphere' on November 3

10/27/2017

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The Georgetown 2016-2018 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, "Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change," is hosting a symposium the day before our 2017 conference. A great way to segue into next week's watery events! 

The symposium "Bodies/Water: Knowledge and the Hydrosphere," will be held on Friday, November 3 from 9:30-4-6 pm, in the CCAS Boardroom (ICC 141) on Georgetown's main campus.

It's going to be a great day of interdisciplinary discussion and connections, a showcase of environmental humanities research on water: 

  • The symposium will begin with a keynote address from Prof. Nicole Starosielski (Media, Culture and Communication, NYU), exploring the resonances between bodies and aquatic environments, sensory knowledge, the potential uses of digital systems, and the problematics of scale. Starosielski's recent work highlights the relationships between marine sensing, aquatic extraction, Navy exploration, fishing and undersea cables. Explore the digital humanities project, "Surfacing," here; (http://surfacing.in) The keynote will be followed by commentary and discussion with Prof. Mark Giordano (SFS STIA, Georgetown). 
  • A photography exhibit "Fire Goes Where Water Flows: Watershed and Wildfire in California" and presentation from Dr. Rina Faletti (Global Arts, UC Merced) will explore the aesthetics, geography and recent history of California's water infrastructure
  • Graduate students from different disciplines will present their research and lead discussion: What is the relationship between the hydrosphere’s physical phenomena, as experienced by human bodies, and the scholarship that we produce in the environmental humanities? How to we know water, and what do our different ways of learning mean?
  • Our own Prof. John McNeill will provide closing reflections and discussion (University Professor, SFS/History, Georgetown)

All are welcome! 
Please see the Seminar website (https://anthropocene.georgetown.edu/) for details about this and the rest of the term's events, including contact information regarding accessibility.
This is event is part of a two-day series of environmental humanities programming focused on water: the Mellon Sawyer Seminar will be screening Watermark (Burtynsky and Baichwal 2013) on the evening of November 3, at 8:00 pm in New South 156.

In addition, Georgetown's environmental history graduate student conference is on Saturday, November 4.


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