A Conversation with Sarah Jaquette Ray November 19, 2020 6:30–8:00 PM (EST) Archived streaming video of this event is available here. Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs, Sarah Jaquette Ray’s book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (University of California Press, 2020) is an “existential toolkit” for the climate […]
Dorothy Ko Andréa Zhouri Edward B. Barbier Frances Roberts-Gregory In this three-week webinar series, historians, anthropologists, and economists Ko, Zhouri, Barbier, and Roberts-Gregory will discuss the challenges and opportunities for economic, cultural, and social justice in a time of acute global environmental and health crisis. Dorothy Ko, Barnard College of Columbia University, “Tu-Ren (Earth-Humans) & […]
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Transdisciplinary & Transcultural Perspectives"
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 […]
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…
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 […]
February 6-8, 2020 UF Levin College of Law University of Florida For 26 years, the Public Interest Environmental Conference (PIEC) has sought to promote an understanding of the legal aspects of environmental protection, serve and inform individuals as to the necessity for improvements in environmental law, foster the development of sound environmental legislation, measure […]
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. […]