Climate Justice Symposium panels and workshop

9:15-10:45 AM - Session C: Women and Climate Justice (Chair: Camille Washington-Ottombre)

• Clara Fang, Oasis: A Green Equity Collective, Women of Color and the Glass Cliff:  Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Environmental Leadership.
  
• Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli. The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change.
  
• Tenzin Dhardon Sharling. Decolonial Feminist Perspectives on U.S. Climate Colonialism and Empire Consolidation.
  
• Jane Caputi, Florida Atlantic U. Disney’s Moana: Neither Feminist Nor Climate Just.
  

1:45-3:15 PM - Session F: Queerness and Climate Justice (Chair: Heather Rosenfeld)

• Michael Mikulewicz , SUNY ESF. Searching for queerness in climate change studies: surveying an emerging field of studies.
  
• Khalil Deka , SUNY ESF. Impacts of climate change on the LGBTQIUA+ community in India and Syracuse, New York.
  
• Emme Christie, SUNY ESF. Bridging the Climate-Human Rights Gap: Aligning LGBTQ+ Rights with Climate Justice Advocacy in Jamaica.
  
• Vanessa Raditz, University of Georgia. StoryMapping Queer Climate Justice.
  

4:30-6:30 PM - Workshop 2:  Think Like an EcoSystem: Co-creating interdisciplinary projects to move people (and yourself) from points of wonder to climate action

Description: How to shift from the overwhelm of climate change and (in)justice to hope, agency, and action?

Since prehistoric times, the arts have inspired engagement, reflection, and discussion thanks to their affective power to attract, involve, and motivate people to do things they might not otherwise have the interest, energy, courage, or endurance to do. As catalysts for personal transformation and social change, the arts can collaborate in equally honored roles with science, social justice, and other fields, in new ways to move people – emotionally and physically – to act.

This session will offer examples of arts/science/social justice/sustainability projects from around the world and explore different strategies to apply to your own life and work. Please bring a “point of wonder” with you – an issue, a problem, an injustice – you care deeply or are curious about to consider, and a laptop if you have one. Workshop leader: Marda Kirn