Ecologies and Institutions:<br>Rebuilding a Shape-shifting Caribbean with Digital Humanities

Ecologies and Institutions:
Rebuilding a Shape-shifting Caribbean with Digital Humanities

Schuyler Esprit Create Caribbean Research Institute November 17, 2017 UF Informatics Institute CISE Bldg E251, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Marie, what do we gain or lose by continuing to frame higher education as a primary conduit for preserving Caribbean heritage and Caribbean sustainability? What new forms of academic […]

The Contexts of Climate Change:
Glaciers, Nuclear Power & Documentary Film in Europe

Helen Hughes, University of Surrey November 6–7, 2017 The Wooly 20 N. Main Street, Gainesville, FL Peak (Germany, 2011), directed by Hannes Lang Screening of the film & discussion November 6, 6:00 PM Under Control (Germany, 2011), directed by Volker Sattel Screening of the film & discussion November 7, 6:00 PM About the Films Peak (Germany, 2011, 86 […]

The Past & Future of the Anthropocene

October 23–24, 2017 University of Florida Smathers Library 100 “The Anthropocene: Rethinking Environment & Society, Disciplines & Time” Helmuth Trischler Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany Deutsches Museum, Munich October 23, 6 PM “Science & the Evolution of Planetary Politics: A Political Epistemology for the Anthropocene” Franz Mauelshagen Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany Rachel Carson […]

Which Medium? Whose Story?

Oonya Kempadoo 5 PM, September 21, 2017 Smathers Library 100 University of Florida Each story has its calling in a particular form. But don’t we think, imagine and remember in an interdisciplinary and multimedia way? Following the development of Oonya Kempadoo’s new work, Naniki, the journey from analog to digital and multimedia reveals a navigation […]

“Higher Education During the Great Disruption” (April 13)

Stephen Mulkey calls for reimagining higher education in an age of climate crisis

“Future Bear” (Feb. 23)

Julian Chambliss discusses how digital humanities can engage young people in positive action on climate change.

“Mr. Eternity” (Feb. 15)

Mr. Eternity A Reading & Conversation with Aaron Thier 7 PM, February 15, 2017 The Chamber, Reitz Student Union The University of Florida Archived streaming video of this event is available here Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to hell. It is here that two young […]

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The World is Dying and We’re Filming It

The Wooly, 20 North Main Street Gainesville, FL 6 PM, December 11, 2016 Rather than approaching climate change as a scientific, political, or policy problem, the undergraduate students of “Creating the Cinema of Climate Change” were tasked with reframing environmental crisis as a moral and creative challenge. The result: fourteen original short films that will […]

ICC profiled in UF’s Explore Magazine

ICC is profiled in the Summer 2016 issue of UF’s Explore Magazine

ICC is a “Champion for Change”

ICC co-organizers are named winners of UF’s 2016 “Champions for Change” Award!

Imagining Climate Change

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