On November 18, 2025, Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and John Levi Barnard (English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) engaged in a dialogue on “Environmental Humanities” as part of the Modern Critical Theory (MCT) lecture series.Their dialogue responded to a culture that often treats environmental knowledge as abundant yet environmental action as elusive. Over the evening, the two speakers explored related yet distinct trajectories: Rhee examined the intellectual challenges the Anthropocene brings to historical study, while...
Siqi Tong is a PhD student in Musicology. Her research spans musical exchanges between China and the West in the 20th and 21st centuries, the modernization of Chinese traditional music, Chinese...
Nathalie Martinez (she/her/ella) is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her interdisciplinary research interests are centered in...
Camellia Paul is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her MA degree in Comparative Literature from...
