Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture: Tao Leigh Goffe
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Tao Leigh Goffe is a critically acclaimed writer, theorist, artist, and academic who specializes in colonial histories of race, geology, climate, and media technologies. She founded the arts and climate research organization Dark Laboratory in 2020 and is the author of “Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis” (Doubleday, 2025). Goffe is an associate professor at Hunter College, CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center in Earth and Environmental Sciences.
The Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture, presented by The Commons, is an endowed lecture dedicated to bringing leading thinkers across disciplines to address the University of Kansas and regional communities.