Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include "Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down" and "A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times." Pandian also serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on the global fight to build a zero waste future, anchored in stories from the United States, India, Ghana, and Spain. 

This talk is free and open to all. 

Thanks to our 2026 sponsors and collaborators: the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, the UGA Arts Collaborative, Graduate School, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Odum School of Ecology, Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Geography, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the ICON Student Organization.