Deborah Scheuer The Climate Reality Project November 21, 2019 Smathers Library 100 2–3 PM On November 20–21, The Climate Reality Project presents “24 Hours of Reality: Truth in Action,” a global conversation on the truth of the climate crisis and how we solve it. For one full 24-hour period, Climate Reality Leader volunteers trained by former […]
Susanne Götze November 13, 2019 Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room) 5 PM–6:15 PM Walls of Present & Future: The Genuine, the Imaginary, & the Fake in Global Climate Change Discourse Susanne Götze Terry Harpold Marcel Lewandowsky Jasmine McNealy Ken Sassaman Robert T. Walker November 14, 2018 Pugh Hall Ocora 4–5:30 PM Archived streaming video of […]
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Anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy asks, Will archaeologists of the future interpret disaster landfills as monumental structures?
Temiti LehartelUniversité Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3 October 22, 2019 Marston Science Library L-136 12–1:30 PM The Swan Book, a 2013 novel by Indigenous Australian author and land rights activist Alexis Wright, has been called “the first great novel of climate change… and perhaps the first truly planetary novel.”1 Reflecting on Wright’s opaque Aboriginal realist and hybrid […]
Terry Harpold, University of Florida September 12, 2019 Turlington Hall 3018 3–3:50 PM About the Event Since 2015, UF’s Imagining Climate Change initiative has sponsored or co-sponsored nearly two dozen colloquia, invited lectures, performances, readings, and film screenings on the UF campus and in the wider Gainesville community, featuring internationally-renowned activists, creators, researchers, and scholars […]
August 8, 2019 Thelma A. Boltin Center 516 NE 2nd Avenue, Gainesville, FL 10 AM – 2 PM This one-day forum, sponsored by the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Committee, Alachua County Branch, and other partners, will feature talks by local and regional climate activists, tabling presentations by local environmental organizations, live poetry and song performances, […]
August 8, 2019 Working Food Community Center 219 NW 10th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 6:30–8:00 PM There is only ONE Everglades in the world and it is dying. Climate change presents yet another threat to this unique socio-ecological system. Join Reverend Houston R. Cypress from the Otter Clan of the Miccosukee Tribe to discuss opportunities […]
Marisol de la CadenaUniversity of California, Davis Friday, October 19, 2–2:45 PM Smathers Library 100 University of Florida Join us for an informal conversation with Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. We will discuss Professor de la Cadena’s 2015 essay “Uncommoning Nature,” a call to readers to engage with […]
September 18, 2018 – March 3, 2019 Harn Museum of Art University of Florida The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene chronicles an era of rapid, radical and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by more than 45 contemporary international artists. We live in a world of imminent extinctions, runaway […]
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Nicole Starosielski Casey Boyle February 28, 2018 Scott Nygren Studio, Smathers Library West 3 PM – 5 PM Nicole Starosielski, “Digital Heat and the Infrared Image” All matter emits heat and is transformed by it. In thermal vision, such heat exchanges are transduced into visual images. And in turn, infrared images, entangled with infrastructures of temperature control, […]