<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="10EFCC19-D798-48FA-A80E-FBBC4F0FE800" class="" src="cid:EBCECAF7-F620-41A1-BC97-CA15AFB94A52@hsd1.ma.comcast.net"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><font size="3" class="">Living Climate Futures - A Two-Day Symposium</font></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Climate change does not happen alone. It is always bound up with other things: land dispossession, eroding infrastructure, industrial pollution, job loss, water and food insecurity, racial discrimination, and more. <a href="https://livingclimatefutures.org/" class="">Living Climate Futures</a><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> invites frontline climate and environmental justice activists to campus and demonstrates a collaborative approach to pressing problems, one that does not merely ask after the “social impacts” of climate change and mitigation strategies </span><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">on</span><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> diverse communities, but instead is </span><em class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">led by</em><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> research agendas that center community needs, experiences, and priorities. </span>Living with climate change means grappling with deteriorating economic and environmental conditions in the present, while planning for uncertain futures.</div> <br class=""><div class=""><font size="3" class="">For </font><a href="https://livingclimatefutures.org/events" class=""><font size="3" class="">event details</font></a><font size="3" class=""> and profiles of our <a href="https://livingclimatefutures.org/participants" class="">speakers</a>, see our </font><a href="https://livingclimatefutures.org/" class=""><font size="3" class="">website</font></a><font size="3" class=""> and register <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/mit-living-climate-futures-147829" class="">here</a>.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Friday, April 22 Earth Day</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Urban Farming and Food Justice </b> (10-11am The Nexus, Hayden Library)</div><div class="">Environmental and food justice activists from GreenRoots Chelsea will join Walt Bonham and Amanda Stanfield — urban farmers from Mansfield, Ohio — to discuss the regeneration of American cities from the ground up. Speakers will compare notes on the environmental condition of urban lands, the communities that urban farms serve, and the political strategies that have been successful in each city. <i class="">Registration required.</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Virtual Tour of Southeast Chicago with high school student activists </b> (11:30-1pm The Nexus, Hayden Library)</div><div class="">Trinity Colón, Alejandra Cruz, Gregory Miller, and Destiny Vasquez — youth activists from the Environmental Justice Club at Southeast Chicago’s George Washington High School (featured in <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/environmental-racism-chicago-southeast-side-protest" class="">Teen Vogue</a>) — will be on campus to facilitate a live discussion between MIT students and their classmates back in Southeast Chicago, who will share a virtual tour of their neighborhood. <i class="">Registration required.</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Indigenous Earth Day at MIT </b> (2:30-5pm Stata Amphitheater)</div><div class="">We celebrate Earth Day with an afternoon of testimonials, stories, and lively discussion among Indigenous leaders from the Southeast (Lumbee Nation), the Pacific Northwest (Lummi Nation), and the North American Indian Center of Boston. Speakers will share how Indigenous knowledges and methodologies inform their approaches to climate change and their projects of working for sovereignty and climate justice and in their regions and communities. MIT student groups dedicated to climate justice will close the afternoon by sharing about their efforts at MIT and beyond through an “open mic” format. <i class="">Open to all.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Speakers:</i> David Shane Lowry (Lumbee), Jay Julius W’tot Lhem (Lummi), Kurt Russo, Santana Rabang (Lummi), Donna Chavis (Lumbee), Ryan Emanuel (Lumbee), Jean-Luc Pierite (NAICOB).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Saturday, April 23</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience Tours</b> (9am-12:30pm)</div><div class="">Join one of 3 free guided walking tours! Buses leave from 77 Mass. Ave. <i class="">Registration required</i>. See <a href="https://livingclimatefutures.org/events" class="">website</a> for details.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• GreenRoots environmental justice tour and community cleanup of Chelsea (including lunch! with a 1:30pm return)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) Toxic Tour of Nubian Square, Roxbury</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• The Food Project’s tour of its urban farming spaces in North Dorchester</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Panel Discussions</b> <b class="">with our community partners </b> (2-5pm, MIT Welcome Center, Kendall T)</div><div class=""><i class="">Open to the public.</i></div><div class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Justice for All</i></b></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What are the ghosts of our ecological pasts? How have the cycles of land dispossession, extraction, industrialization, urbanization, de-urbanization and gentrification played out across American landscapes and people’s bodies? This panel will bring together Indigenous leaders and urban environmental justice activists to share their understanding of how justice and equality (or the lack of both) have aided profit-seekers in degrading environments and accelerating climate change. </div><div class=""><i class="">Moderated by history professor Kate Brown</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Envisioning Climate Futures</b></i></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The closing session begins with an interactive “Community Visioning” exercise that will lead the audience in generating a collective, if varied, vision of a livable climate future. Drawing on that exercise, an intergenerational panel will reflect on the stories, struggles, and dreams that have been voiced during the two day symposium to consider how, by building on the good work already undertaken by communities living at the front lines of climate change, we might learn to thrive together across differences.</div><div class=""><i class="">Moderated by anthropology professor Bettina Stoetzer</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><b class="">Living Climate Futures is sponsored by: </b>Anthropology, STS, History, Project Indigenous MIT, MIT Office of Sustainability, and the SHASS Dean’s Office</div><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Note: All events are free but some have limited availability and registration is required </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.5333333611488342px;">for all tours and events in The Nexus</span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">. To register, click </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/mit-living-climate-futures-147829" class="">HERE</a>. </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">NOTE: masks are optional inside all MIT buildings at this time.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">MIT is committed to making our events accessible. Please email </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Carolyn Carlson (</span><a href="mailto:carlsonc@mit.edu" class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">carlsonc@mit.edu</a><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">)</span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><i class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> </i>by April 14 </span></span></span></span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">to request accommodations for our on-campus events.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-adcbf14c-7fff-8cd4-59d1-482ecb15322f" class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="border: none; display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; width: 624px; height: 832px;"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/wadSls0qCh0RL21JpwqU8hsbT1CYgx0WXoUr9ip1UljYZbLiL4wM-gmIdPGW7dMp6A2hdBM2zWIso4FV9w5F-dajGo0vZUhQnH7cgNPX5qC3WelUzJ-lWNv3ejUQI_Ddf3065e32" width="624" height="832" class="" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span></span></div></div></body></html>