Cine Lab, 234 W Hancock Ave Thursday, January 23 2025 | 5:30 - 7pm Museum Events Todd Braje is the executive director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon specializing in long-term human-environmental interactions, the archaeology of maritime societies, historical ecological approaches to understanding coastal hunter-gatherer-fishers, and the peopling of the Americas. His 2024 book, Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Can Inform Our Planet's Future, is about the critical importance of archaeology and deep history for creating a more sustainable world and combating the modern environmental crisis. From atmospheric warming to biodiversity loss, deforestation, overfishing, and pollution, we live on a planet in peril. Together, we face an uncertain future in the age of humans. But, as daunting as the challenges may seem, they are solvable, and solutions can be found by looking to our past. Now more than ever, the past matters for future Earth, and archaeology and history must act as critical guides. Drawing from examples in his new book, Understanding Imperiled Earth, Braje makes connections between history and today’s hot-button environmental news stories to reveal how the study of our ancient past can help us build a more sustainable and resilient future. This lecture is presented by the department of anthropology, the Georgia Museum of Natural History, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the Willson Center's 2025 Global Georgia public events series. It is free and open to all, with no registration required. Dr. Todd Braje, Executive Director Museum of Natural and Cultural History University of Oregon Dr. Braje's website can be found here.
