# Environmental Humanities Seminar #### calendar\_today Date and Time **March 2, 2023** 03:00PM - 03:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge** The Mahindra Humanities Center presents "Spectres of Settler Infrastructuralisms: Van Ginkel Associates Go North" with **Jordan B. Kinder**, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow. The Mahindra Humanities Center presents "Spectres of Settler Infrastructuralisms: Van Ginkel Associates Go North" with **Jordan B. Kinder**, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow. [Jordan B. Kinder](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/people/jordan-b-kinder) is a Métis and settler-British media studies and environmental humanities scholar from a resource town in what is now known as northern British Columbia, Canada. He studies the cultural politics of energy, infrastructure, media, and environment. His current book project, titled *Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil in the Age of Social Media*, examines the pro-oil movement in Canada’s use of social media to refigure Canadian oil as a socially, economically, and ecologically progressive force. He holds a PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of Alberta and, before joining the Mahindra Humanities Center, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (2020-22). His work can be found in *South Atlantic Quarterly*, the*Canadian Journal of Communication*, *Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond* (West Virginia UP), *Socialism and Democracy*, *Mediations*, and elsewhere. At the Mahindra Humanities Center, he will be completing work on a new project titled *Between Foreclosure and Possibility: Competing Energy and Infrastructural Imaginaries in the Contemporary Canadian Mediascape*. The project studies extractive and post-extractive energy and infrastructural imaginaries by focusing on a set of in-construction energy infrastructures in Canada’s northwest. [Abby Spinak](https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/abby-spinak/) is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She studies energy history, with a particular interest in the politics of utility ownership and the role of infrastructure in disseminating economic ideas. For more information and to register, visit [the event page](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/environmental-humanities-seminar-jordan-b-kinder). Contact: . See also:- [ Arts & Humanities ](/research-areas/arts-and-humanities) - [ Faculty of Arts and Sciences ](/school/faculty-arts-and-sciences) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.environment.harvard.edu/node/1472366/event-feed.ics) Copy link link