“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 […]
This Cycle, Here, This One
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 […]
Our Future: Embracing the Anthropocene
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, […]
Our Children’s Trust: Youth Activism &
the Legal Right to a Stable Climate
Isaac Augspurg & Oscar Psychas Guy M. Burns, Managing Partner, Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel and Burns, LLP Andrea Dutton, Assoc. Professor of Geology, University of Florida Andrea Rodgers, Senior Staff Attorney, Our Children’s Trust Wednesday, February 6, 6–8 PM Ocora (Main Room), Pugh Hall University of Florida Event is free and open to the public. No […]
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‘Polder-Geist’ & the Languages of Sustainability
Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania Getting Creative: Translation & Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability & Resilience November 13, 2018 Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room) 5 PM–6:30 PM Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels & Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States & Asia November 14, 2018 Dauer 215 12–1:30 PM Archived streaming […]
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Urban Paradise
Wednesday, November 14, 7 PM Civic Media Center 433 S Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601 Experts often describe Miami, Florida, as ground zero for the effects of sea level rise. It is expected to be the first of many coastal metropolitan regions in the United States to be seriously affected by rising waters. The […]