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Julie Sze

   MON, OCTOBER 5, 2020 at 7PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Lecture: Climate Justice in a World on Fire, or ICE will Melt
Drawing on an emerging archive of climate justice cultural production, I ask, what does non-naïve radical hope look like now in the face of interconnected environmental, political and social disasters? What does freedom look like in the face of environmental and state violence in its myriad forms- gentrification, surveillance, policing and deportation regimes? Culture and media, in abolitionist climate justice narratives, offer a partial answer.  I argue that these narratives, grounded squarely within social movements, enact an imaginative reclamation and recognition in a brutalizing economic and political system that seeks to deny the rights of survival for vulnerable peoples and communities, animals and the ecosystems.

Susan Schuppli

   TUES, OCTOBER 13, 2020 at Noon Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Lecture: Cold Rights in a Warming World
This presentation builds upon a body of work that I have been developing over the past few years exploring the many different knowledge practices that are mediated by "ice" from scientific expertise to local knowledge and indigenous traditions. My first phase of research explored ice cores as a planetary archive comprised of “material witnesses” that are capable of recording the Earth’s complex atmospheric histories. Ice acts a natural storage medium for recording climatic events because of its unique ability to capture and store evidence of greenhouse gases over hundreds of thousands of years. The air bubbles trapped in ice are not simply data-proxies that scientists read in order to understand the past in the ways that they might decode trees to gain insight into historic temperature variations, rather, it is literally ancient air and thus provides unique and direct evidence of climate change. Read more

Craig Santos Perez

   TUES, OCTOBER 20, 2020 at 7PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Lecture: "Beyond The Tenth Horizon": Sensing Ecological and Human Interconnections through Pacific Islander Eco-Poetry
In this hybrid talk and poetry reading, I will show how Pacific Islander literature makes visible the interconnections between diverse environmental and human scales, spectrums, and spaces. Launching from Epeli Hauʻofa’s concept of “the tenth horizon,” we will poetically navigate the catastrophes wrought in the Pacific by militarism, nuclearism, and ecological imperialism, as well as the solidarities woven by indigenous, racial, sovereignty, climate, and food justice movements. Throughout, I will argue that Pacific eco-poetry articulates indigenous ethics, critiques colonial exploitation, and imagines sustainable futures. 

Denise Ferreira da Silva

    TUES, OCTOBER 27, 2020 at Noon Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Lecture: "Deep Implicancy"

Kyle Whyte

    TUES, NOVEMBER 10, 2020 at 7PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Lecture: The Timing of Climate Justice
There’s a growing concern that renewable energy solutions to climate change can be harmful in their own right. Indigenous peoples are among the communities, countries, and peoples who have stated this concern. Why are some renewable energy solutions enacted irresponsibility? Part of the reason why has to do with how some proponents of these solutions narrate climate change through linear time. When narrated like a ticking clock, the sense that swift action is needed obscures responsibilities to others who risk being harmed by solutions. This presentation will then offer four different Indigenous approaches to narrating climate change, "depth time," "seasonal time," "kinship time," and "dystopian time," showing how each offers an account of responsibility. While philosophical, the Indigenous approaches have implications for climate governance, allyship, policy, and the media. 

Robin Wall Kimmerer

   TUES, DECEMBER 8, 2020 at 4:00 PM (MST)

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, distinguished professor of Environmental Biology at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. As the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, Kimmerer has earned wide acclaim. As a writer and a scientist, Kimmerer's interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land.

Join us for an author's afternoon featuring a presentation by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, followed by a conversation with Dr. Clint Carroll, Associate Professor, ���������� Ethnic Studies and a general Q&A session. This special Zoom presentation is sponsored by the ���������� Museum of Natural History, NEST and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Kathryn Yusoff

   TUES, FEBRUARY 2, 2021 at Noon (MST)

Lecture: The (In)Humanities

Jacqueline Patterson

  MON, FEBRUARY 8, 2021 AT 7:00 PM (MST)

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Julianne Lutz Warren

  MON, FEBRUARY 15, 2021 at 1:00 PM (MST)

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Macarena Gómez-Barris

   TUES, FEBRUARY 23 at 5:00 PM (MST)

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Edgar Heap of Birds

  MON, MARCH 1, 2021 at 1:00 PM (MST)

Lecture: "Spirit Citizen, Provocative Native American Public Art and Studio Practice"

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Nicholas Mirzoeff

  TUES, MARCH 9, 2021 at 5:00 PM (MST)

Lecture: "The Natural History of White Supremacy."

Abstract: This talk is part of my effort to think of white as a verb and whiteness as a practice.  It looks at how nature is made into by whiteness by the practices of settler colonialism and named as "natural history." Beginning with plantation cultivation, I spend time with Audubon, his Birds of America, and the formation of US ornithology as a way of seeing in order to think about what has become known as the Central Park birdwatching incident, on the same day as the murder of George Floyd. Just yards from that place is the American Museum of Natural History, which institutionalized the relationship of nature and white supremacy. Its racializing statue of Theodore Roosevelt hunting has been protested by Indigenous people since 1971 and was finally set to be removed after the 2020 protests. Can this removal open the possibility to see "nature" other than as death?

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Robert Bailey

  MON, MARCH 15, 2021 at 1:00 PM (MST)

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Lauren Redniss

  MON, MARCH 22, 2021 at 1:00 PM (MST)

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Carlie Trott

  MON, MARCH 29, 2021 at 1:00 PM (MST)

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Jennifer Peterson

  MON, APRIL 5, 2021 at 1:00 PM (MST)

Lecture: "Forest Petroculture: A Cinematic History"

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Monique Verdin

  MON, April 12, 2021 at 1:00 PM (MST)

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Kim TallBear

  MON, APRIL 26, 2021 at 1:00 PM (MST)

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Cannupa Hanska Luger

  TUES., MARCH 8, 2022 at 6:30 PM (MST)