Florencia Sangermano, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. Seminars are open to all. Attendees are expected to be vaccinated and follow Clark’s indoor mask requirements. The format is […]
Asha Best, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. Seminars are open to all. Attendees are expected to be vaccinated and follow Clark’s indoor mask requirements. The format is a 40-45 minute presentation followed by 15-20 minutes of questions and discussion; interaction with speakers is encouraged.
Abby Frazier, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
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 networks in […]
Zoom link HERE Presenter: Catherine Coumans Coumans has coordinated corporate accountability research and the Asia-Pacific program at MiningWatch Canada for 20 years. She has worked in solidarity with communities and Indigenous peoples affected by Canadian mining companies in more than ten Asia-Pacific countries and in Tanzania. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and has published on […]
Join us for a walking tour of Clark's Hadwen Arboretum with Dr. John Rogan and Nick Geron, as guides to the ongoing restoration work including trail creation, tree planting, and invasive species removal. The tour will last about one hour. Please meet at the intersection of May and Lovell Street to walk over together. Contact: […]
Speaker: Felipe Milanez, Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Culture and Society, of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil This presentation investigates the relationships between the physical destruction of humans and of nature in the Brazilian Amazon. It pays particular attention to the […]
Bonnie Ram Director, Ram Power Consultancy; Senior Researcher & Associate Director, Center for Research in Wind Energy; and College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of Delaware
Stefanie Covino, Blackstone Watershed Program Manager & Research Scientist, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University
Join us via Zoom HERE Extractives@Clark will be hosting an initial conversation with Dr. Milanez to learn about his work with indigenous and quilombola communities in the Brazilian Amazon. His work in political ecology and environmental humanities examines the relationship between different forms of dispossessions and aggressions to the environment and indigenous, and traditional communities' forms […]
