Evan Tims

How can the future of climate change and urban rivers be told through the stories of community members? And how can these stories be shared across digital platforms? What is the link between qualitative research methods and the co-creation of futures? Evan Tims has spent years researching these questions and building a platform for climate fiction publishing focused on voices from across South Asia. In this talk, he will explore the possibilities of climate storytelling as a research method and mode of public digital humanities scholarship.

This event is open to anyone but we do ask you to register in advance so we can estimate how much food to order.

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Evan Tims is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the political ecology of wastewater treatment and climate planning in India. He is the founder and director of the In100Years Project, a workshop series and publishing platform dedicated to environmental fiction and futures-based stakeholder research. Through In100Years, he has worked with over two thousand writers and community members across Nepal, India and Bangladesh and has digitally published several anthologies of community climate fiction, most recently Writing the Bagmati. He is a Fulbright Scholar and Henry J. Luce Scholar, and has recently received support from the Penn Museum, Mellon Humanities and Urban Design Initiative, and CASI.