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. […]
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 […]
Karolina SobeckaInstitute for Aesthetic Practice & Theory, HGK, Basel Jamie AllenCritical Media Lab, Basel & NSCAD, Halifax February 11, 2019 The Chamber (Reitz Student Union) 3 PM–4:30 PM About the Event It is that which at this instant, issuing out of a labyrinthine tangle of yeses and no’s, makes my hand run along a […]
February 7-9, 2019 UF Levin College of Law University of Florida For 25 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 legal protection, foster the development of sound environmental legislation, […]