BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14431-b969a9e03d530056b224a9fcea5b5369@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T131217Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T173000 SUMMARY:Colloquium on the Environment: Eric Klinenberg DESCRIPTION:\nPenn State Sustainability’s annual Colloquium on the Envir onment returns to bring another renowned sustainability champion to the university for in-depth dialogues and explorations with students\, facul ty and staff\, alumni\, and the general community. Offered since 2004\, the Colloquium series has been created in partnership with the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE).\n\nFor our February 2025 Colloquiu m\, Penn State is excited to welcome Eric Klinenberg\, Helen Gould Shepa rd Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and author most recently of the bestsel ling 2020: One City\, Seven People\, and the Year Everything Changed. Kl inenberg will dive into our recent history—elections\, COVID-19\, and so cial protest—to uncover the broader social forces and histories that are shaping our increasingly factionalized responses to key issues in publi c life. Using key insights from his sociological research\, he will help us consider how we can move forward to find more productive and empathe tic engagement as a society and he will explore the power of becoming en gaged in broader social networks to improving people’s health\, happines s\, and sense of purpose.\n\nJoin us for the Colloquium keynote on Wedne sday\, April 9\, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. EST\, in person at 118 Katz Building and online.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/colloqu ium-environment-eric-klinenberg/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Penn State Sust ainability’s annual Colloquium on the Environment returns to bring anoth er renowned sustainability champion to the university for in-depth dialo gues and explorations with students, faculty and staff, alumni, and the general community. Offered since 2004, the Colloquium series has been cr eated in partnership with the Institute of Energy and the Environment (I EE).

For our February 2025 Colloquium, Penn State is excited to we lcome Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science a nd Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and author most recently of the bestselling 2020: One City, Seven P eople, and the Year Everything Changed. Klinenberg will dive into o ur recent history—elections, COVID-19, and social protest—to uncover the broader social forces and histories that are shaping our increasingly f actionalized responses to key issues in public life. Using key insights from his sociological research, he will help us consider how we can move forward to find more productive and empathetic engagement as a society and he will explore the power of becoming engaged in broader social netw orks to improving people’s health, happiness, and sense of purpose.

< p>Join us for the Colloquium keynote on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. EST, in person at 118 Katz Building and online.

For more det ails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/colloquium-environment-e ric-klinenberg/

URL:https://sustainability.psu.edu/programs/colloquium/ LOCATION:118 Katz Building END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR