Blanche Verlie (RMIT University)
March 29, 2023
Smathers Library 100
5:30 PM (EST)
Climate change is a deeply distressing phenomenon; yet this distress can also be generative, offering opportunities to reconsider and reimagine destructive ways of living.
In this virtual presentation, Dr. Blanche Verlie discusses some of the key findings and concepts from her 2022 book Learning to Live with Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation. Verlie will discuss how creative collective engagements with climate distress can unsettle the extractive imaginaries of modernity and open space for more regenerative relationships that can contribute to climate justice.
This event is free and open to the public.
How to Register & Attend in Person & Virtually
This event is a hybrid in-person/virtual seminar (webinar). Blanche Verlie will speak virtually to a live, in-person audience in Smathers Library 100. In-person attendees will be able to speak with Dr. Verlie via a microphone and camera in the room. Virtual attendees will be able to watch her lecture in full but will have more limited access to her during the question and answer session afterwards. Virtual attendees must register to gain access, either in advance or at the time of the webinar, via this Zoom link:
https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x6LFaNQpRIS5160NPtS0WA
Registration is not required for in-person attendance.
About the Speaker
Dr. Blanche Verlie is an Australian climate change educator and researcher currently living on unceded Gadigal Country. Verlie has over 10 years’ experience teaching sustainability and climate change in universities, as well as experience in community-based climate change communication and activism. She has a multidisciplinary background, brings an intersectional feminist and multispecies approach to her work and is passionate about supporting people to engage with the emotional intensities of climate change. Verlie is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Futures at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
“Learning to Live With Climate Change” is sponsored by Imagining Climate Change and the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.