IILJ Colloquium: Planetary Thinking

Professor Lisa Ruth Rand (Caltech) is a historian of technology, science, and the environment who tends to gravitate toward extreme natures and broken things. Rand will discuss the environmental history of outer space, and in conversation with Professor Alejandro Rodiles (ITAM, Mexico) on planetary thinking.

Recommened readings for this session:

• Lisa Ruth Rand, Space is the Place: Extraplanetary Disorder in Histories of Science (2024)
• Lisa Ruth Rand, Falling Cosmos: Nuclear Reentry and the Environmental History of Earth Orbit (2018)

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: Space and Planetary Law & Governance.