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Learning to live with climate change Online Book Launch

August, 2021.

Speakers:

  • Dr Blanche Verlie, Sydney Environment Institute

  • Associate Professor Astrida Neimanis (Chair), University of British Columbia Okanagan

  • Professor Sarah Jaquette Ray, Humboldt State University

  • Professor Mindy Blaise, Edith Cowan University

 

Feeling climate (in)justice

My farewell lecture from the Sydney Environment Institute, Sept 2022.

As fires rage, floods overwhelm, and heatwaves smother, more and more human and non-humans around the world are feeling the impacts of climate change. But these impacts are not felt equally, with the most disadvantaged forced to endure the worst consequences of the climate crisis. Yet our approaches to climate justice rarely foreground the affective (lived, emotional, embodied, psychic) experience of climate change. In response to the emotional experience of climate injustice, SEI Postdoctoral Fellow Blanche Verlie’s farewell lecture reflects on the possibilities and challenges of considering climate feelings and climate justice together. You can find the transcript here.

 

When climate anxiety leans right: Eco-fascism, Buffalo and Roe.

In a webinar held on June 10, 2022 and sponsored by Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, listen to Betsy Hartmann, Sarah Jaquette Ray, Jade Sasser and Rebecca Weston speak about the racist history of eco-fascism in the environmental movement, the gender politics of reproductive freedom and its relationship to climate change, the psychology of petro-masculinity and authoritarianism and ways to build an anti-fascist, pro-social climate justice movement. Chaired by Blanche Verlie.

 

A flood of emotions

In the aftermath of devastating climate disasters like Australia’s recent east-coast floods, how do communities – those at the centre of the crisis and those on the periphery – support each other emotionally during times of climate distress? Hear from climate emotions experts and residents of Lismore.

Maddy Braddon, community organiser

Professor James Bennett-Levy, mental health expert

Aidan Ricketts, academic and environmental activist

Samuel Savage, emergency services coordinator

Jeanti St Clair, journalism lecturer and storycatcher

Moderator: Dr Blanche Verlie, social scientist.

The recording for this podcast is from a live Sydney Ideas online event, presented in collaboration with Sydney Environment Institute; held on Thursday 21 April, 2022.

 

Bearing Witness: Humanities Teaching in a Time of Environmental Catastrophe.

Inaugural President’s Conversation of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, with Lesley Head, Tom Ford, Paula Satizabal and Andrea Gaynor.

Watch below, or read a summary here: https://www.humanities.org.au/2021/07/02/bearing-witness-humanities-teaching-in-times-of-environmental-catastrophe/

 

Thinking relationally about climate for gender justice.

Lead in session at the Gender Justice in Disaster conference, May 2021.