{"id":338,"date":"2021-03-27T20:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T03:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/climatechange\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2021-05-04T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:20:34","slug":"winter-2021-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/climatechange\/winter-2021-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 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 (details below)<\/em><\/strong><\/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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Evergreen Prof. Ruth Hayes, on “Eco-Media; the Environmental Footprint of Media and the Myth of the Cloud”<\/h2>\n

Monday, January 25, 2021<\/h3>\n

\"\"Evergreen faculty Ruth Hayes<\/a> will be speaking about “Eco-Media; the Environmental Footprint of Media and the Myth of the Cloud,” hosted by Mediaworks<\/a> (Laurie Meeker & Ruth Hayes). Ruth Hayes\u00a0is a member of the faculty in animation at The Evergreen State College, teaching\u00a0animation theory and practice in broadly interdisciplinary contexts.\u00a0Her creative research involves\u00a0animated experiments<\/a> in film, video and digital media as well as flipbooks and other pre-cinema formats. Ruth\u00a0earned her MFA in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, and her BA in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard College.<\/p>\n

The two preparatory readings are available as ebooks from the Evergreen Library:<\/p>\n

1.) Maxwell, Richard, & Miller, Toby. Greening the Media<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2012), Introduction, Ch. 1.<\/p>\n

2.) Bozak, Nadia. The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2011), Introduction, Ch. 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a010:00 am- 11:15 pm. <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The presentation and discussion are posted on YouTube<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n