Dr. Lynn Badia, Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University, is a specialist in Environmental & Energy Humanities. This talk will consider the question: What would it mean for humanity to have a virtually unlimited energy source? Badia will consider how the conditions of energy crisis have also produced a discourse about energy abundance. Considering case studies of “free energy” technologies from the twentieth century and the present day, she will investigate how ideas about new energy infrastructures necessarily involves a particular social vision, whether acknowledged or not.

This event is co-sponsored by the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, The Revers Center for Energy at the Tuck School of Business, the Dartmouth College Office of the Associate Dean for the Arts & Humanities, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and Environmental Humanities.