Preliminary Program

Preliminary Symposium Program

Friday September 20, 2024

2:30 pm: Check-in opens

3:00-4:30 pm: Parallel Sessions A and B

Session A: Conversations between the Arts, Humanities, and Climate Justice (Chair: Alexis Callender)

  • Phoebe Godfrey,  University of Connecticut. How We Got Here: Biblical Stories, Cultural Symbols, and The Anthropocene.
  • Angela D’Souza, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mother Nature. La Tierra. The Earth is weeping: A multi-media exhibit.
  • Anna Botta, Smith College. Claudia Durastanti’s Missitalia: A Feminist Reconsiders the Italian South.
  • Vanessa Adel, Smith College. Poetry for Climate Justice.

Session B: Adaptation, Resilience, and Climate Justice (Chair: Camille Washington-Ottombre)

  • Tasfia Tasnim, SUNY ESF. A call for re-politicizing climate justice.
  • Cielo A. Sharkus, Holly Embke, Krista Harper,  Vicente Pereira-Roa,  Jason Comcowich, Hilda Roque, Sunrise Iaim Smith, Stephen Fernandez, Eve Vogel, Christian D. Guzman. Understanding Perception of Risk and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change Through Participatory Research with a Massachusetts Urban Farming Community.

5 pm: Plenary Keynote, Dr. Dorceta Taylor, Professor, Environmental Justice, Yale University

6:30 pm: Welcome Reception

Saturday September 21, 2024

8:30 am: Check-in and Coffee Social Hour for all symposium participants

9:15-10:45 am: Parallel Sessions C, D, and E

Session C: Women and Climate Justice (Chair: Camille Washington-Ottombre)

  • Clara Fang, Oasis: A Green Equity Collective. Barriers for Women of Color in the Environmental Section.
  • Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli. The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change.
  • Dhardon Sharling Decolonial Feminist Perspectives on U.S. Climate Colonialism and Empire Consolidation.
  • Jane Caputi, Florida Atlantic U. Disney’s Moana: Neither Feminist Nor Climate Just.

Session D: Climate Justice in the Global South (Chair: Javier Puente)

  • Ashwin Ravikumar, Amherst College. Public spending on health care, education, and sanitation is linked to lower deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon: new empirical support for the climate debt framework,
  • Parisa Rinaldi, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Climate justice, feminist interventions, and the radical geographies of social reproduction within the environmental struggles of Colombia’s extractive frontiers,
  • Marzie Shakiba, Avaye Mehre-Hamoon, Iran- Zahra Golshani, Cornell University. Women and the burden of climate change in Iran.
  • Kwabena Antwi, Clark University. Climatic and non‑climatic risks in three selected communities in the Upper East Region of Ghana.

Session E: Just Energy Transitions (Chair: Alexander Barron)

  • Jacob Park, University of Johannesburg. Understanding and accelerating the financing of green and just transition in Africa: What can we learn from South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership Framework?
  • Teniel Rhiney, Andre Tarleton, Ana Beatriz Juarez Stucker, Krista Harper, Charlie Sullivan, and Nicholas Caverly, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A Just Residential Energy Transition through an Intersection Feminist Lens.
  • Yu Cao, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Environmental Racism in Alaska: A Case Study of Historical Nuclear Legacy.
  • Ania Camargo, Thermal Networks Senior Manager, Building Decarbonization Coalition.

11:00 am: Plenary Keynote, Jacqueline Patterson, Founder and Executive Director, Chisholm Legacy Project

12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch for all symposium participants

1:45-3:15 pm: Parallel Sessions F, G, and H

Session F: Queerness and Climate Justice (Chair: Heather Rosenfeld)

  • Michael Mikulewicz , SUNY ESF. Searching for queerness in climate change studies: surveying an emerging field of studies,
  • Khalil Deka , SUNY ESF. Impacts of climate change on the LGBTQIUA+ community in India.
  • Emme Christie, SUNY ESF. Searching for queerness in climate change studies: surveying an emerging field of studies.

Session G: Farming and Climate Justice (more information soon)

Session H: Voices for Climate Justice from Around the World (more information soon)

3:30-4:30 pm: Coffee Social Hour and Games for all symposium participants

4:30-6:30 pm: Parallel Workshops (see detailed descriptions of all workshops here)

6:45 pm: Dinner (panelists only)