REPOST: Decolonize4Climate
Why We Must Stop Electric Cars from Destroying the World
Cross-promotion from this original event link.
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.
Posted: February 10, 2022, 10:50 AM