2025 Loyola University Maryland Humanities Symposium

The Great Uprooting: Migrations and Movement in the Age of Climate Change

The Loyola University Maryland Humanities Symposium is an annual week-long series of events centered around a common text that the university community reads and discusses in its classes. The event has occurred each spring for the past 20 years, aiming to promote university-wide common conversations around a particular issue. The symposium is capped by a public lecture by a keynote speaker.

I was selected from among my peers in Loyola’s Digital Media program to create a series of posters and digital and physical signage to promote the keynote address by author Amitav Ghosh. These posters were inspired by Ghosh’s book, The Great Derangement, and its focus on the disproportionate impact of climate change on countries that contribute little to the climate crisis. The works are also inspired by the work of Jerry Uelsmann. I combined the imagery of the hand reaching out over a blighted desert with bold, urgent text in red and grey to draw student and staff attention to the climate crisis and encourage them to attend the event.