Datum
12. März 2024
Seminar in the series „Disability & Climate”, Online/University of Exeter
„Disability & Climate: In conversation with…dr Polly Atkin and prof Julia Watts Belser”
Seminar in the series „Disability & Climate”
Online / University of Exeter,
12 March 2024
5–6.30pm GMT
Our fourth session will take place on Tuesday 12th March 2024 from 5–6.30pm GMT (1–2.30pm in EDT) with Professor Julia Watts Belser, scholar, rabbi, and long time activist for disability and gender justice. In this session, we’ll talk with Julia about her work to document disability climate wisdom in „Disability and Climate Change: A Public Archive Project” (https://disabilityclimatechange.georgetown.domains/), a project that showcases insights from disabled activists, artists, and first responders who are grappling with climate change. We’ll explore key issues from the archive—how disability insights about limits and loss can help us better navigate a precarious world, why climate solutions need to reckon with longstanding inequality and chronic crisis, as well as ways to nourish hope and centre ourselves in the practices of community care. If you would like to find out more and/or sign up for this session, please complete this online form: https://forms.office.com/e/NvYcwy5LxQ.
If the form is inaccessible for you, please do email Sarah (Sarah.Bell@exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests in joining instead.
In September 2023, the European Centre for Environment and Human Health launched started a new online „Disability & Climate: In conversation with…” series for people that are interested in reflecting on and/or sharing experiences around disability and the climate crisis. This is part of a new project on disability-inclusive climate action led by the University of Exeter. The project website, „Sensing Climate”, is coming soon but in the meantime, you can read a little more about it online.