This event will be live on Zoom, Facebook and YouTube. Spanish interpretation and closed captioning will be available. The Nonesuch - eerie, overpowering alien creatures - have forced humanity into hiding. This lecture will explore the ongoing West Coast wildfires in critical historical and ecological context, illuminating how these fires are catastrophes of an unimaginable scale and part of a larger global pattern in which fires emerge from and further fuel immense ecological destruction.Īn activist and writer, Mike Davis is the author of 20 books, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Planet of Slums, The Monster at Our Door, Magical Urbanism, Late-Victorian Holocausts, and most recently (with Jon Wiener) Set the Night on Fire: L.A. The decision by a California appeals court Friday overturning the conviction of an illegal immigrant who shot and killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco in 2015 once again put the national spotlight. Again watching it for the first time after recordi. On the evening of February 24, 1942, an anti-aircraft barrage of more than 1,440 rounds is launched at what is initially thought to be a Japanese aerial. Events address the historical origins of ecological destruction and mass extinction, the implications of these phenomena for human and nonhuman survival and ways of life, the role of human politics and much more. This vid is slightly out of order from the others, this one came before the illuminator adjustment video.
#Alien invasion in california series
The UMass History Department's 2020-21 Feinberg Series "Planet on a Precipice: Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency" continues with a lecture "California Burning: The Apocalyptic Trinity of Climate Change, Alien Plant Invasion and Exurbanization" by Mike Davis. The Feinberg Series will host nine major public events throughout the academic year featuring internationally renowned scholars and movement leaders.
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