Decolonizing Knowledge:<br>Indigenous Theories in Latin American &<br>U.S. Empire Studies

Decolonizing Knowledge:
Indigenous Theories in Latin American &
U.S. Empire Studies

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. […]

Decolonizing Representations: Past, Present & Future

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, […]

Emerging Forms

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. […]

The Climate Crisis & Its Solutions

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 […]

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

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 […]

“The Politics of Disaster Debris” (Nov. 12)

Anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy asks, Will archaeologists of the future interpret disaster landfills as monumental structures?

An Impossible Dialectic:
Resisting & Revitalizing Perception in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book

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 […]

ICC: Fostering Dialogue & Lessons Learned

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 […]

Climate Crisis: An Intergenerational Discussion

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, […]

Scintillating Sovereignties

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 […]

Imagining Climate Change

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