{"650418":{"#nid":"650418","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Superheroes and Magic Won\u0027t Save Us: Environmental Justice in Popular Media","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis presentation will be a 45 minute talk by Georgia Institute of Technology professor Dr. Kent Linthicum via Zoom beginning 3:00pm EST with a Question and Answer session after.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKent Linthicum, Ph.D., is an American Council of Learned Societies fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, and various academic journals. Dr. Linthicum researches and teaches media, environmental studies, and climate change. He\u0026rsquo;s currently working on a book about the relationship between slavery and fossil fuels before the Civil War.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClimate change is one of the greatest challenges the world faces, and while there are more and more books, films, television shows, and video games that mention climate change, media representations of environmental justice are hard to find. This talk will go over the history of environmental justice and its representations in popular media, looking at works like Octavia Butler\u0026rsquo;s Parable of the Sower, N.K. Jemisin\u0026rsquo;s Broken Earth Trilogy, the Game of Thrones series, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Battlefield 2042, Civilization 6, and other media.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis session is hosted by the South Fulton Institute of Arts, Culture, and Environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdPG-UlVDcLyKhVNEpXLc1G_U3VG7dGkSaQMqhIlFgjZf0u2w\/viewform\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERegister to attend and receive viewing link\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis presentation will be a 45 minute talk by Georgia Institute of Technology professor Dr. Kent Linthicum via Zoom beginning 3:00pm EST with a Question and Answer session after.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This presentation will be a 45 minute talk by Georgia Institute of Technology professor Dr. Kent Linthicum via Zoom beginning 3:00pm EST with a Question and Answer session after."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2021-09-02 18:01:29","changed_gmt":"2021-09-02 18:01:54","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-09-19T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-09-19T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-09-19T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-09-19 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-09-19 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-09-19 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646934":{"id":"646934","type":"image","title":"Kent Linthicum Headshot","body":null,"created":"1619538195","gmt_created":"2021-04-27 15:43:15","changed":"1619538195","gmt_changed":"2021-04-27 15:43:15","alt":"","file":{"fid":"245581","name":"KentProfile.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KentProfile.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KentProfile.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":751681,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KentProfile.JPG?itok=Wk7MwVXu"}}},"media_ids":["646934"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdPG-UlVDcLyKhVNEpXLc1G_U3VG7dGkSaQMqhIlFgjZf0u2w\/viewform","title":"Register to Attend"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:environment@southfultoninstitute.org\u0022\u003ELauren Garrett\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}