Dresher Center for the Humanities Presents:
Decolonize4Climate
Location
Online
Dresher Center for the Humanities Presents: – Online Event
Date & Time
February 17, 2022, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Description
Cross-posted from the Dresher Center: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/dreshercenter/events/101634
The Latin American Feminisms Working Group is proud to present co-founders of the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice (CIEJ) for a talk on "Decolonize4Climate: Why We Must Stop Electric Cars from Destroying the World."
Panelists will discuss Indigenous struggles against lithium mining, colonial legacies of current green initiatives, and the need for radical re-imagining beyond technological substitutions to stop climate change.
- Dr. Amrah Salomon J., Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Dr. Leslie Quintanilla, Assistant Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, San Francisco State University
- Jessica Ng, PhD Candidate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; and member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice
Event will be recorded and shared on the Dresher Center YouTube channel.
Sponsors: Dresher Center for the Humanities; Department of Geography & Environmental Systems; Department of Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies; the Global Studies Program; the Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL+) Program; and Latinx & Hispanic Faculty Association.
