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)