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Join us in welcoming Dr. Stuart Kendall for a series of talks, classroom visits, and scholarly discussions centered around interdisciplinary study and research!

Dr. Kendall’s keynote talk, titled “What Are Humans For?” will take place on Friday, October 3rd at 4pm in the atrium of the U.J. Noblet Forestry Building. All are welcome to attend this public presentation, which will discuss the present and future of interdisciplinary study- examining the strategies of several exemplary interdisciplinary thinkers whose modes of thought sought to embrace exploration and change. The lecture pursues an interdisciplinary inquiry into human experience in order to open a methodological toolbox of strategies and tactics for conviviality.

Stay tuned for more information about Dr. Kendall’s visit, including a special lunch discussion between Dr.Kendall and ICC visiting scholar Ian Bogost!

The graduate community is also invited to a talk on Thursday, October 2nd at 3pm in the forestry atrium titled “We Scholars” which will discuss interdisciplinary study and research, with an emphasis on centering the human therein. This presentation is specially geared at graduate students and faculty.

Stuart Kendall is a historian of thought and media and design theorist who has lectured and run workshops at colleges, universities, conferences, and colloquia nationally and internationally. As an academic leader, he created new majors, coursework concentrations, and assessment tools in interdisciplinary humanities, environmental and animal studies, and media and design history, theory, and criticism.