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Evergreen’s Climate Justice and Resilience Speaker and Event Series is centered on the Climate Academy<\/a> program, and is hosted by multiple programs that study climate themes. All students, faculty, staff, and the general public are invited to join these events on Zoom. Announcements of speakers and events, ways to access the online events, and background links and documents, will be posted here. Soon after each event is over, videos will also be posted on the quarterly speaker series pages.<\/strong> Many thanks to Evergreen Media Services staff for their hard work in making this remote series possible.<\/em><\/p>\n

The speaker and event series builds on the Anthropocene<\/a> series (2015-16), two Indigenous Climate Justice Symposia<\/a> (2015-17), the \u201cWater is Life\u201d<\/a> forum (2017), \u201cThe Waters Connect Us<\/a>\u201d forum (2018),\u00a0 the \u201cNurturing Roots<\/a>\u201d forum (2019), and other collaborative events at Evergreen. The speakers and events listed below are part of the 2020-21 series:<\/p>\n

FALL 2020 SPEAKER SERIES (details below)<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

SEPT. 27: Fall Convocation Panel on Disaster Resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n

OCT. 27: Dr. Michael M\u00e9ndez, author of Climate Change from the Streets<\/em>
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NOV. 10: Dr. Kyle Whyte, Indigenous climate scholar, U. of Michigan
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NOV. 18: Professor Lane Selman, Culinary Breeding Network<\/strong><\/p>\n

FALL WEEK 9: Evergreen Prof. Pauline Yu, on Climate Change and Aquaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winter 2021 Speaker Series<\/a><\/h4>\n

JAN. 25: Evergreen Prof. Ruth Hayes, on “Eco-Media; the Environmental Footprint of Media and the Myth of the Cloud” <\/strong><\/p>\n

FEB. 6: S\u00e1mi Perspectives on Green Colonialism: Response to Climate Change<\/strong> (S\u00e1mi National Day)<\/em><\/p>\n

FEB. 8: Prof. John Bolte, on Climate Resilience Modeling<\/strong><\/p>\n

FEB. 20: Toshi Reagon on Parable of the Sower <\/em>opera<\/strong><\/p>\n

FEB. 24: Evergreen Prof. Shangrila Joshi, on “Climate Justice in Global Context”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring 2021 Speaker Series<\/a><\/h4>\n

SPRING WEEK 1: Julie Barber (Swinomish Tribe Senior Shellfish Biologist) & Amanda Kelley (UA-Fairbanks Ocean Acidification Research Center)
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APR. 14: Zolt\u00e1n Grossman, Alex McCarty, and Conceptualizing Place students presenting publication on removing barriers to salmon runs<\/strong><\/p>\n

APR. 24: Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez Farmworker Justice Day \/ “Farmworkers’ response to COVID-19 and wildfire danger using multigenerational movement organizing as an ‘ecosystem'”
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MAY 12: Prof. Amalia Leguizam\u00f3n on “Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina”<\/strong><\/p>\n

MAY 13: Rob Smith (U.S. Forest Service) on “Climate Change Modeling With Lichen Communities”<\/strong><\/p>\n

MAY 26: Evergreen Emeritus Prof.<\/strong> Jeff Antonelis-Lapp, with “A Virtual Field Trip in the Nisqually River Watershed”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fall Convocation Panel on Disaster Resilience<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Friday, September 25, 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The Fall Convocation, part of Orientation Day, will feature an interdisciplinary panel discussion with faculty and staff focused on the common read Rebecca Solnit\u2019s A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster<\/em><\/a> (Penguin 2009), on how communities pull together in times of disaster. Solnit’s recent articles \u201cThe impossible has already happened: what coronavirus can teach us<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c\u2018The way we get through this is together\u2019: the rise of mutual aid under coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> address the pandemic. The Convocation panel (moderated by Eirik Steinhoff) includes (short bios<\/a> available):<\/p>\n