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Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown

Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown

Research and pedagogy on the more-than-human world and unfolding environmental crises

Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown

Research and pedagogy on the more-than-human world and unfolding environmental crises

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    April 1st Seminar

    Climate Adaptation in the AI Era

    Claudio Battiloro (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Studies on Air Pollution and Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

    In conversation with Roberta De Vito, Brown Biostatistics and Data Science Institute

    Climate change is intensifying natural hazards and exacerbating inequities, with wide-ranging effects on health, society, and economies. AI and ML can empower resilience—by enabling data-driven planning, equitable interventions, and resource management—but they are also heightening the urgency to address the technology’s environmental footprint. To balance these dual goals, we must bridge technical gaps, such as handling complex, large-scale, and misaligned spatiotemporal data, and adopt a holistic vision that emphasizes both AI for resilience and resilience to AI.

    Bio: Claudio Battiloro is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a former Visiting Associate at the SEAS of the University of Pennsylvania. He received a M.Sc. cum laude in Data Science and a Ph.D. cum laude in Information and Communication Technologies from Sapienza University of Rome. Claudio’s research interests include (broadly) AI for Health and Climate, theory and methods for topological signal processing and deep learning, and distributed stochastic optimization. He has over 30 publications, including papers published in top-tier journals (e.g., Journal on Machine Learning Research, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on IoT and IEEE Transaction on Green Communications and Networking) and conferences (e.g. ICLR, ICML ,ICASSP, and IJCNN). Claudio received different awards, such as the IEEE SPS Italian Chapter Best M.Sc. Thesis Award (2020), and the GTTI Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2024). 

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    Data Matters is intended to stimulate conversations and collaboration by bringing multiple perspectives to challenging data-driven problems and talks are structured to be more of an interactive experience than traditional academic seminars. Data Matters includes scholars with backgrounds in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences who share their perspectives on why data matters.

    Held on select Tuesdays at 3:00pm at the Data Science Institute.

    Data Matters Seminar Series

  • 2024-2025 Pembroke Center Research Roundtable

    • Featuring:
      • Susana Draper (Princeton)
      • Avery Gordon (UC Santa Barbara)
      • Tyrone S. Palmer (Wesleyan)
      • Kali Rubaii (Purdue)

      This roundtable will address forms of writing at the edge of life. It will consider modes of writing and artistic form that can respond to our current moment of racial capital, colonial enclosure and ecological devastation–inclusive of daily calamities and resurfacing joys. Dissolution, disturbance, and deformation are keywords for this coming together.

      This event was organized by Postdoctoral Fellows Patricia Ekpo, Sarah Richter, María Gloria Robalino, and Eda Tarak. The event represents the culmination of the year-long Pembroke Center research seminar, “Unwriting the Anthropocene,” convened by Macarena Gómez-Barris, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Chair of Modern Culture and Media.

      Free and open to the public.

      Event accessibility information: To bypass stairs, visitors may enter via the automatic doors at the rear of the building, where there is a wheelchair-accessible elevator.

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Apply to Become a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center

Brown University invites applications for up to two 2-year postdoctoral research associate positions at the Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown University to support programming and intellectual vision towards the growth of the center. Applications will be reviewed beginning January 28, 2025, and accepted until the position is filled.

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In the Dissolution: Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness Summer Workshop

Brown and Duke University doctoral students can apply by February 13, 2025 to join the second Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness Summer Workshop. Held in Providence, RI and directed by Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University) and Michaeline Crichlow (Duke University), the workshop will include faculty participants Anny-Dominique Curtius (University of Iowa), Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University), Leila Lehnen (Brown), and madison moore (Brown) among other visitors.

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