REPOST: Decolonize4Climate

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:50:49 -0500

Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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 Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; 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.