Loading…
← Back to schedule
Kickoff and Keynote
Friday November 8, 2024 12:00pm - 1:15pm EST
Mid Century Room, Rubin Campus Center
Welcome
Dr. Andrew Sears, Provost, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Remarks and Discussion
Dr. Farhana Sultana, Professor of Geography, Syracuse University
Amidst growing ecological crises and climate-influenced worsening disasters, the need to confront systems that perpetuate and exacerbate impacts appears to be a unanimous global desire. Yet that is not necessarily the case. Climate coloniality disrupts simplistic narratives of climate justice or the understanding of what just global futures could be. Climate Coloniality reproduces the hauntings of colonialism and imperialism, thereby complicating climate politics at global and local scales. This requires decolonizing both epistemic violences and material outcomes for meaningful climate justice. Collaborative learning and education focused on community-based praxis and ethics of care offer possibilities for more just futures.

Followed by Discussion with Mimi Sheller, Dean of the Global School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Featured Performance
David Ibbett, composer, educator, and musical advocate for science
(Odeum A&B, Rubin Campus Center)

Lunch is provided (Mid Century Room)
Speakers
avatar for Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller

Dean, The Global School, WPI, WPI
avatar for Farhana Sultana

Farhana Sultana

Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University
As an internationally-recognized and award-winning interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author, I am broadly interested in water governance, climate justice, political ecology, critical development studies, transnational feminist theories, critical urban studies, social justice... Read More →
Friday November 8, 2024 12:00pm - 1:15pm EST
Mid Century Room, Rubin Campus Center
  Keynote

Sign up or log in to save this to your schedule, view media, leave feedback and see who's attending!

Tweet Share
Share Modal

Share this link via

Or copy link