{"id":335,"date":"2021-03-27T20:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T03:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/climatechange\/?page_id=335"},"modified":"2021-06-06T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T22:28:09","slug":"spring-2021-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/climatechange\/spring-2021-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2021 Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/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 (details below)<\/em><\/strong><\/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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Shellfish and Ocean Acidification
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Spring quarter (forthcoming)
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Evergreen Prof. Pauline Yu will be in conversation\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0Julie Barber<\/strong>, Senior Fisheries Biologist for the Swinomish Tribe (left) and Amanda Kelley, <\/strong>School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska – Fairbanks (right).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Julie Barber is a\u00a0Senior Shellfish Biologist for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community<\/a>. \u00a0Amanda Kelley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences<\/a> at the University of Alaska – Fairbanks, and Co-Director of the Ocean Acidification Research Center<\/a> at UAF.<\/p>\n

Pauline Yu<\/a><\/strong> is in her seventh year as faculty at Evergreen in the Environmental Studies curriculum pathway, and is currently both providing faculty co-supervision of the Evergreen Shellfish Garden<\/a> and also co-teaching Experiments in Photography: Science + Art. See also the fall 2020 recording<\/a> of Pauline Yu in conversation with student\/alum leaders of the Evergreen Shellfish Garden.<\/p>\n

Talk available soon for spring quarter; link TBA.
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“Conceptualizing Place” publication on Removing Barriers to salmon runs<\/h2>\n

Equity Symposium,
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In Fall 2020-Winter 2021, students in the \u201cConceptualizing Place: Pacific Northwest Native Art and Geographies<\/a>\u201d daytime program at (Zolt\u00e1n Grossman and Alexander McCarty, faculty) produced a 135-page publication about barriers to salmon runs, notably dams, dikes, and culverts, and how tribal nations have led alliances to remove some of the barriers in order to restore salmon habitat in Northwest watersheds. Removing Barriers: Restoring Salmon Watersheds through Tribal Alliances<\/em><\/a> will be available for download in late May 2021.<\/p>\n

The place-based stories of habitat restoration highlight how treaty rights and tribal sovereignty have become leading drivers of reversing damage wrought by settler colonialism, and how the healing of the watersheds and their estuaries is made possible by a process of decolonization and reindigenization in corresponding Indigenous homelands.<\/p>\n

In Removing Barriers: Restoring Salmon Watersheds through Tribal Alliances<\/em>, narratives of the watersheds are told through text, graphics, and students\u2019 42 original digital artworks and maps, as students simultaneously learned Northwest Native histories, geographies, and art styles. Under the remote supervision of faculty (artist Alexander McCarty<\/a> and geographer \/ cartographer Zolt\u00e1n Grossman<\/a>), individual students produced Adobe Illustrator artwork and maps in fall quarter, and student teams produced the Adobe InDesign layouts in winter quarter. Media Services staff offered their invaluable training and assistance.<\/p>\n

Students\u2019 twelve chapters highlighted the Nisqually, Elwha, Skokomish, Chico, White Salmon, Nooksack, White, Deschutes, Chehalis, Klamath, and Snake watersheds, as well as background on dams and climate change, and their effects on Pacific salmon, orcas, and coastal communities. The book\u2019s theme of \u201cremoving barriers\u201d applies to the barriers to salmon runs, barriers between human beings and the natural world, barriers between Native and non-Native communities, and barriers to Indigenous self-determination.<\/p>\n

Removing Barriers <\/em>will be available here<\/a> for download in late May 2021.\u00a0 This 49-minute minute presentation by faculty and students was at Evergreen’s annual Equity Symposium.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uhnL2CtISYQ <\/a>
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