Guest Lecturer: Matthew Birkhold - Ohio State

The Melting Sublime: From Georg Forster to Ivínguak' Stork Høegh This talk explores the entanglement of law, culture, and aesthetics in the polar regions. As climate change reshapes Arctic and Antarctic landscapes, traditional aesthetic foundations of environmental law are rapidly eroding. By tracing shifting representations of icebergs from the eighteenth century to contemporary Indigenous art, this project develops the concept of "the melting sublime" to reimagine aesthetic value in the Anthropocene.