Once the realm of science fiction fantasy, the prospect of huge machines being lowered onto fragile deep seabed ecosystems to mine for metals is now only two years away from becoming reality. Coumans’s presentation sets out the historical roots of this expansion of extractivism at a time of acute concern about ocean health, biodiversity loss […]
South American scholars and activists have proposed buen vivir and post-extractivism as utopian paradigms of alternative nature/society relationships rooted in indigenous knowledges. This talk reassesses and modifies these abstract concepts, proposing the idea of Buen sobrevivir, or “good survival”, as a radical, prefigurative politics grown out of communitarian feminist, post-extractivist praxis by Lenca women and their […]
The Blackstone Commons Expedition — a 60-mile, four-day paddle along the Blackstone River, from Worcester to Providence, organized by the Blackstone Watershed Collaborative at Clark University — will kick off with a press event at the Blackstone Heritage Corridor Visitor Center.
The Blackstone Commons Expedition will conclude with a final celebration at Narragansett Brewing in Providence, including a screening of the short film “Kittacuck Speaks” and a program of speakers.
In this documentary, a research team travels to the “Last Ice Area” to measure the world’s largest and oldest sea ice floes. They know the data, the models, and the science, but none of that has prepared them for the truth on the ground. A discussion with the filmmakers will follow.
Professor Paul Posner will moderate a Q&A session with Beatriz Bustos Gallardo, professor at the Universidad de Chile, about the 2019 social revolt in Chile that led to the writing and referendum of a new constitution. The constitutional assembly included leaders from ecological movements, and an ecological lens was central to the whole document.
Join the School of Management in a neighborhood cleanup, part of the 27th annual United Way Day of Caring.
Professor Beatriz Bustos Gallardo of the Universidad de Chile will analyze citizenship practices in rural Chilean territories to propose a topography of rural citizenship practices.
A new Earth conversation presents a week of opportunities to engage with the natural world on campus and beyond.
Set aside some time to slow down and celebrate the arrival of fall. Enjoy cider, cider donuts, and stargazing (weather permitting).
Enjoy a hike at Donker Farm, part of the Greater Worcester Land Trust. Led by the Worcester Intercollegiate Outdoor Initiative, we will take a short hike and then help put the animals to bed.
Join Professor Matt Malsky for a curated 20-minute walking tour with focused listening, a way of encouraging us to better understand our sonic world.
