In February, I gave the opening keynote talk at the Planet Texas 2050 symposium at the University of Texas Austin. UT has uploaded a video of my talk, “Sustainability across the University: Expanding the Disciplinary Range of Teaching, Scholarship, and Artistic Expression Responding to Environmental Change”, to YouTube.
The subject of the talk was why deeply interdisciplinary engagement across the entire university, including natural and social sciences, engineering, public policy, humanities, and the arts, is critical to addressing the challenges of climate change and sustainability. To illustrate this, I discussed the history of 20 years of deeply interdisciplinary teaching, research, and artistic expression about climate change and sustainability at Vanderbilt.