The scientists and photographer behind “Climate Chagne: Picturing the Science” will be at the Koshland Museum on Tuesday for a lecture and book signing.

DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area

This week’s lectures focus on renewable energy and the environment, as well as fashion, food, the Renaissance and the Bible.

Monday:
>> Tonight at 7:30 p.m., those interested in nature photography should head to National Geographic for an illustrated lecture with photographer Joel Sartore, who is best known for his images of endangered species. $18.

>> Crime noir author Walter Mosley is at Politics and Prose tonight at 7 p.m., reading from his new mystery, The Long Fall, which features a brand new Mosley character, Leonid McGill, and is the first book by the author to be set in New York City.

>> The National Museum of the Women in the Arts begins their six-part Sort-of-Jane Austen Reading Series tonight with The Tragedie of Antonie from 7 to 9 p.m. The series will feature “works from the Renaissance that were never staged and more recent works that illuminate the lives of Renaissance-era women in the arts,” and will be read by D.C. actors. $10.

Tuesday:
>> Prior to a screening of fashion flick Ralph Rucci: A Designer and His House at the Corcoran will be a discussion by the director, David Boatman. At 7 p.m., $15 gets you in the door and a gift bag from Neiman Marcus.

>> At 7 p.m. at the Museum of American History, hear D.C. chef José Andrés and Wylie Dufresne of New York’s WD-50 discuss the international influence of Spanish Vanguard Cuisine (or molecular cuisine). Free; doors open at 6:30 p.m.

>> Or, be at the S. Dillon Ripley Center from 6:45 to 9 p.m. for an illustrated lecture on ancient Rome with author George Sullivan. Book signing will follow the lecture. $40.

>> The Koshland Museum hosts another option tonight, with Picturing the Impact of Climate Change from 6:30 to 8 p.m. NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt and photographer Joshua Wolfe will “demonstrate how photographs can illustrate the effects of global warming more poignantly than any temperature graph or chart.” Free.