Intersectional Climates: Conversations Towards COP26 - Part One: Climate Change Practices
An online international symposium examining intersectional climate practices ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).
Intersectional Climates: Conversations Towards COP26 - Part One: Climate Change Practices
16 Mar 2021, 16:00 – 18:00
About
This online international symposium celebrates climate practices that prioritise ecological, political and poetic engagement with communities, places and disciplines. Such practices enable greater societal solidarity for tackling the Climate Crisis and with respect to the forthcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, 01 - 12 November, 2021.
Organised into two seminars, ‘Climate Change Practices’ and ‘Reinventing Planetary Practices and Imaginaries’, eight invited keynote speakers from Brazil, India, South Africa, the US and the UK, will present intersectional practices which extend across multiple disciplines; from architecture, to the arts, humanities, sciences and technologies, and from within different regional communities.
Schedule
Climate Change Practices
Tuesday 16 March, 16:00-18:00 GMT
- Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha (University of Pennsylvania)
- Lindsay Bremner (University of Westminster)
- Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió (UC San Diego)
- Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University)
- Chair: Tim Waterman
Reinventing Planetary Practices and Imaginaries
Thursday 18 March, 14:00-16:00 GMT
- Paul Gilroy (UCL)
- Vandana Shiva (Navdanya Earth University)
- Chair: Peg Rawes
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- Image: Cilaos, La Réunion, by Kiri Durelle, 2017