Faculty Research: Thinking about Climate Change Seminar series: Michele Lobo 11th August 12pm
You are invited to the Faculty’s new seminar series on climate change and action which aims to illuminate the contributions we make to addressing the scientific and social causes and impacts of climate change through our research, teaching and operations. Details of the first seminar below:
Tuesday, 11th August 2020, 11 am – 12 O’clock
PANEL: EARTH UNBOUND: CLIMATE CHANGE, ACTIVISM AND JUSTICE GROUP
LED BY DR MICHELE LOBO (Geography) WITH ALFRED DEAKIN PROF YIN PARADIES (Anti-racism/Indigenous Knowledges) AND ASSOC PROF ANNA HALAFOFF (Sociology)
Emerging themes from monthly discussions (January-July 2020) that engage with diverse knowledge systems including Indigenous, Black, Southern, Eastern etc
SPEAKERS
Michele Lobo: Short introduction to group aims and activities since Jan 2020 (2 minutes)
Everyday and institutional activism: radiating responsibility (5 minutes)
Laura Bedford: Ecocide, green criminology and degrowth (5 minutes)
Eve Mayes: Education and climate justice activism (5 minutes)
Anna Halafoff: Precarity, Interdependence, and Non-violence (5 minutes)
Yin Paradies: Decolonial approach to climate activism (5 minutes)
Followed by discussion
Join Zoom Meeting
https://deakin.zoom.us/j/94679346097?pwd=ZlBuc0ROS3dTcUhxck03V0pCSTR3UT09
Meeting ID: 946 7934 6097
Password: 335002
Any questions, please contact:
Andrea Witcomb, ADI ([email protected]), Emily Potter, SCCA ([email protected]), Cayla Edwards, FAE ([email protected])
The “Thinking with climate change’ Seminar series brings together academic and professional staff to discuss their own experience of ‘thinking with’ climate change, either as something ongoing, or a new challenge they are embarking on.
These seminars will lead to a discussion paper on ways we might be able to support research and teaching programs that work with this new way of thinking, as well as policies and strategies the Faculty might take in becoming more sustainable. We would host an end of year symposium where these ideas can be mapped out more fully and engaged with across the University in ways that strengthen the potential of our Faculty to make a meaningful contribution to the University’s sustainability agenda.
Seminars will be held bimonthly via Zoom and consist of a presentation followed by discussion.