ITHACA, NY—The “Tuesday Salon” series at Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery will continue on Oct. 2 with a discussion led by Michael Smith, assistant professor of history.  Entitled “How Inconvenient? Coming to Terms with Global Warming,” the event will begin at 4 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery. The presentation is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

 

“With films like ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and ‘The Eleventh Hour’ bringing the issue of global warming to the silver screen, what scientists have been talking (and worrying) about for more than a decade is now part of the cultural mainstream,” Smith said. “Yet have we as a society responded to this inconvenient truth? The Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its lowest extent since data began to be recorded. What does this mean for us? What kind of conversations should we be having about global warming?”

 

The Tuesday Salon is a Handwerker Gallery program aimed at providing students, faculty, staff and members of the community a forum outside of a classroom setting for intellectual discussion and debate. Topics are selected by a guest discussant, who provides a 10-minute introduction and moderate the ensuing conversation. Tuesday Salon events will continue through the fall semester.

 

For further information, contact Rebecca Plante, Tuesday Salon co-director and assistant professor of sociology, at rplante@ithaca.edu.