Bird in Hand presents… with JHU Medicine, Science, and the Humanities: Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science, featuring Aaron Vansintjan and Vijay Kolinjivadi (with Nicole Labruto)

Bird in Hand Coffee and Books hosts the latest edition of this engaging series. The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book.

For this event, we welcome Aaron Vansintjan and Vijay Kolinjivadi, co-authors of The Sustainability Class: How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists. In this groundbreaking book, they present an original argument that environmental sustainability has been co-opted by the urban elite, and provide examples from around the world of ways we can save our planet. As the introduction states, “caring for the environment means reclaiming ecology for everyone.”

Nicole Labruto, assistant research professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, will moderate this conversation with Aaron and Vijay. This event is open to the public, and we encourage you to come even if it’s your first time joining for this event series!

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Vijay teaches solidarity economics at the School for Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University. Aaron is Policy Manager at Food Secure Canada and co-author of The Future Is Degrowth, published by Verso Books. Both Aaron and Vijay are editors of Uneven Earth, and have been published in Time Magazine, Al Jazeera, Newsweek, The Guardian, and The Conversation. They live in Montreal.

Nicole Labruto is an assistant research professor in the Department of Anthropology. She received her BA in Anthropology and Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College, her MA in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research, and her PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during which she was a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow. She is also the recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Foundation. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and an Anthropologist-in-Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She is a member of the Curatorial Circle of the Ecological Design Collective.