“Environmental Humanities Breakfast Conversation with Courtney T. Wittekind” (Yale Environmental Humanities)

Join us for our second in-person conversation (this time over breakfast) of the Fall semester with Courtney T. Wittekind, Postdoctoral Associate at Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University. Courtney received her PhD in Social Anthropology with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice from Harvard University in 2022. Her current research lies at the intersection of work on political instability, speculative real estate investment, and agrarian change. Her book project, “’Time to Change:’ Speculating on ‘Transition’ in Yangon’s New City,” describes the unequal burdens facing residents of Southwest Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), an agricultural region set to be transformed into a sprawling “New Yangon City.” 

 

In addition to her research, Courtney is completing her first documentary film in connection with Harvard’s Critical Media Practice program and Sensory Ethnography Lab. She also serves as a co-founder and editor of Tea Circle, a forum for new perspectives from Burma/Myanmar.

 

You can read more about Courtney’s work here.