Imagining Climate Change

Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg Aimee Lewis-Reau LaUra Schmidt September 23, 2020, 6:30–8 PM (EST) Archived streaming video of this event is available here. In this webinar, Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, Aimee Lewis-Reau, and LaUra Schmidt of Good Grief Network will discuss our collective ability to create spaces where people come together, face the difficult realities of these times, and heal in […]

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A Conversation About the Power of Collective Processing"

As UF prepares for a return to more normal event schedules in the coming academic year, ICC is planning a new series of symposia, guest lectures, and readings featuring activists, artists, researchers, and scholars working at the intersections of climate studies and the creative imagination…

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What Can We Learn from Simple Models of Human-Environment Sustainability? February 18, 2020 Bartram Hall 211 3:30 PM A body of work is emerging wherein simple mathematical models of ecological dynamics are coupled to simple mathematical models of human behavior to examine long-term sustainability of these systems. I will discuss several recent and ongoing studies […]

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Madhur Anand, University of Guelph"

Erin Prophet University of Florida February 5, 2020, 4–5:30 PM Marston Science Library L-136 What can be learned from the study of religion about motivating climate action? Are religious people less likely to accept human responsibility for climate change? Erin Prophet will examine contemporary scholarship, consider the role of millennialism in both religious and environmental […]

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January 30–31, 2020 Dauer Hall 215 In the last decade indigenous studies have emerged as a crucial theoretical site for understanding and critiquing the settler colonial present and for decolonial thinking. This symposium will address national and hemispheric conversations on indigenous theories as they shape thinking and writing outside the dominant epistemological frameworks of modernity/coloniality. […]

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Indigenous Theories in Latin American &
U.S. Empire Studies"

Decolonizing Representations: Past, Present & Future How can faculty, students, and community members engage in digital knowledge production as critical users and as meaningful producers? “Decolonizing Representations” is a series of FREE workshops designed for those folks who want to learn to do both, using digital tools to examine and re-imagine representations of Black, Latinx, […]

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December 6, 2019 Pugh Hall 210 10 AM – 4 PM “While it is clearly time to dismantle Anthropocene logic, there is no need to wait until the end of this world to begin to conjure livable ones. There are as yet other worlds in this world. And there are, as yet, worlds to come. […]

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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 […]

Read more "Walls in the Head: Challenges Facing Global Action on Climate Change"