Wednesday, March 20, 2019
7:00 PM

Marshall Performing Arts Center - Mainstage Theater
1215 Ordean Court
Duluth, MN 55812

Tickets:  Free

Limit: 4 per order
 

Speaker Jesse Keenan; Panel discussion with Emily Larson, Karen Diver, Al Rudeck moderated by Andrea Schokker

The conference is hosted by the UMD Research Scholarship and Creative Activities Committee and Institute on the Environment-Duluth with financial support from the UMD Distinguished Visiting Speakers Series Endowment, University for Seniors, and the Natural Resources Research Institute.

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Please note: Ticket holders must be seated by 6:45pm. Empty seats will be released to those on the wait list at that time.
All tickets will be held at Will Call. No tickets will be mailed.

Jesse Keenan is a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. His work is focused on climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects of design, engineering, financing and planning.

Keenan said, "In an age of climate migration, we tend to focus on displacement and not necessarily the economic mobility associated with changing consumer preferences. In one iteration of a climate future, Duluth may be well positioned to accommodate a diverse influx of people, culture, and capital associated with a national redistribution of people and places. The question for Duluth moving forward is whether strategic economic development and marketing can be mobilized under a set of community-drive values that, together, paint a vision of a shared climate future."

Keenan is a member of the United States delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has advised on matters concerning the built environment for agencies of the U.S. government, governors, mayors, Fortune 500 companies, technology ventures, community enterprises and international nongovernmental organizations.