[Sci-tech-public] April 22-23 Living Climate Futures: Register Now!

[Kate Gormley]

Friday, April 22   

Urban Farming and Food Justice   10-11am The Nexus, Hayden Library
Environmental and food justice activists will discuss the regeneration of American cities from the ground up. 
This event is full; registration will add you to a waitlist. If you are registered but unable to come, please remove your registration to free up your spot.

Virtual Tour of Southeast Chicago with high school student activists   11:30-1pm The Nexus, Hayden Library
Youth activists from Southeast Chicago’s George Washington High School will be on campus to facilitate a live discussion between MIT students and their classmates in Southeast Chicago, who will share a virtual tour of their neighborhood. 
This event is full; registration will add you to a waitlist. If you are registered but unable to come, please remove your registration to free up your spot.

Indigenous Earth Day at MIT
2:30-5pm  MIT Dertouzos Amphitheater at Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge (outdoors)
Register here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-earth-day-at-mit-tickets-269995071527?aff=odcleoeventsincollection>

We celebrate Earth Day with an afternoon of testimonials, stories, and lively discussion among Indigenous leaders and thinkers 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 are welcomed to close the afternoon by sharing about their efforts at MIT and beyond. Open to all.
	Speakers: 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).

Saturday, April 23   

Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience Tours    9:00am-12:30/1:30pm
Join one of 3 free guided walking tours! Buses leave at 9:00am from 77 Mass. Ave. Registration required, MIT community only. See website <https://livingclimatefutures.org/events> for details. Register here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/environmental-justice-and-climate-resilience-tours-tickets-270003566937?aff=odcleoeventsincollection> & please use this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUU8zGxVAUDdYFSqDEO7QCn2rPgDbPf5Bim-mivyC59Sqd7A/viewform> to select your preferred tour! 

	• GreenRoots environmental justice tour and community cleanup of Chelsea (including lunch! with a 1:30 pm return)
	• Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) Toxic Tour of Nubian Square, Roxbury
	• The Food Project’s tour of its urban farming spaces in North Dorchester

Panel Discussions among our community partners <https://livingclimatefutures.org/participants>
2-5pm  MIT Welcome Center Auditorium, Bldg. E38, 292 Main Street, Kendall T
Register here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-climate-futures-panel-discussions-tickets-274987122887?aff=odcleoeventsincollection>

Justice for All
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. Moderated by Kate Brown

Envisioning Climate Futures
The closing session begins with an interactive “Community Visioning” exercise that will lead the audience in generating a collective, if varied, vision of livable climate futures. 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. Moderated by Bettina Stoetzer and Heather Paxson

Living Climate Futures is sponsored by: MIT Anthropology <https://anthropology.mit.edu/>, STS <https://sts-program.mit.edu/>, History <https://history.mit.edu/>, Project Indigenous MIT, MIT Office of Sustainability <https://sustainability.mit.edu/>, and the SHASS Dean’s Office <https://shass.mit.edu/about/office-of-the-dean>

Registration for public events (Amphitheater, Welcome Center) is requested but not required. At this time, face masks are optional but encouraged inside all MIT buildings.

MIT is committed to making our events accessible. Please email Carolyn Carlson (carlsonc at mit.edu <mailto:carlsonc at mit.edu>) by April 14 to request accommodations for our on-campus events.




Best, 

Kate Gormley (she, her, hers) 
Administrative Assistant II
MIT Anthropology | 77 Massachusetts Avenue | E53-335L
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-324-0700
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