Environmental Studies Program

September 17, 2023

Brandeis Environmental Studies and Brandeis Students for Environmental Action in attended the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York, joining over 75,000 people in attendance. This was the largest climate mobilization since the start of the COVID19 pandemic.

September 19, 2023

10am-4pm | Fellows Garden (Rain Location- Shapiro Campus Center Atrium)

The Caterpillar Lab returned to campus to teach the Brandeis community all about caterpillars!

October 26, 2023

6 -7 p.m. 
Skyline Commons

The Environmental Studies Undergraduate Department Representatives held a Meet the Majors Event this fall where students, faculty and staff socialized and made trail mix.

October 22, 2023

7- 10pm |Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University

Oil has been an invisible machine at the core of our economy and society. It now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil? This film screening explored the complexities of transitioning away from oil and gas as a society and considers how quickly we can do it. Students enjoyed a Q&A session with the film director, Emma Davie, an award-winning filmmaker who also teaches documentary film at Edinburgh College of Art.

Co-Sponsored by the Brandeis Center for German and European Studies and the Brandeis Film, Television and Interactive Media program

Professor Claudia Horn held an open guest lecture series this fall during her course ENVS 130A Environmental Politics and Justice in Latin America course. The topics included:

• Indigenous Visions for Climate Justice
• Yes to Yasuní. Ecuadorian Activists Discuss the Referendum Against Oil
• Decolonizing Environmental Governance

Professor Thomas King's course ENG 113B Performing Climate Justice held an open session this fall where Chantal Bilodeau, Founding Artistic Director of Arts & Climate Initiative and founder of Climate Change Theatre Action held a conversation about their work with Alicia Hyland, Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs, Dean of Arts and Sciences Office, Brandeis University.

Students in the course partivipated in the fall 2023 installation of Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA), a global festival of short plays, commissioned from playwrights around the world, on topics of climate change and transformative climate justice.

Sponsored by the minor in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation and co-sponsored by English, Environmental Studies, and Theater Arts.