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Professor Barnett Delivers Lecture on Ecological Grief at University of Edinburgh

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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Professor Barnett Delivers Lecture on Ecological Grief at University of Edinburgh

On May 24, Joshua Trey Barnett, assistant professor of Communication Arts & Sciences, delivered the opening lecture of the Environmental Emotions Workshop at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Professor Barnett’s lecture, “Where Does Ecological Grief Grow?,” highlighted and extended his insights on the rhetorical dimensions of ecological grief presented in his book, Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence (MSU Press, 2022).