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Join us next Thursday for the Baker Center Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and Environmental Policy Forum, which will take place on Thursday, February 23 at 3.30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium in the Baker Center. Maxine Burkett, from University of Hawai’i will give a 45 minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. Maxine will be appearing via live weblink. Her talk is titled: The Nation Ex-Situ: On Climate Change, Deterritorialized Nationhood and the Post-Climate Era Description: It is plausible that the impacts of climate change will render certain nation-states uninhabitable before the close of the century. While this may be the fate of a small number of those nation-states most vulnerable to climate change, its implications for the evolution of statehood and international law in a “post-climate” regime is potentially seismic. Professor Burkett argues that international law could accommodate an entirely new category of international actors, the Nation Ex-Situ. Professor Burkett introduces the notion of a post-climate era, in which the very structure of human systems—be they legal, economic, or socio-political—are irrevocably changed and ever-changing. Maxine Burkett is Associate Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at University of Hawai‘i. Her current research examines "climate justice” and the disparate impact of climate change on vulnerable communities in the United States and globally. Maxine is the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy, which has projects addressing climate change law, policy, and planning for island communities in Hawai‘i, the Pacific region, and beyond. The Baker Center discussion forum is an opportunity for academics to share their research findings to a broad set of academics, researchers, and students from outside their own discipline but who have a common interest in environmental and energy issues. For more information about the Baker Center Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and Environmental Policy visit the forum’s website: http://web.utk.edu/~jlarivi1/bcinter.html. Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion and presentation. Paul Armsworth, College of Arts and Sciences Jacob LaRiviere, College of Business Administration Becky Jacobs, College of Law Chris Clark, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources