Friday, May 12, 10am-5pm, Symposium
Convened by Dr. Saudi Garcia (Anthropology, The New School) and Dr. Kris Manjapra (History, Tufts University, Heilbroner Center Fellow)
Panelists: Distinguished Keynote Speaker Erna Brodber, Literary Laureate, Sociologist, and Community Organizer, Woodside, Jamaica; Veronica Agard, Ancestors in Training Project; Tao Leigh Goffe, Cultural Theorist, Cornell University; Catherine John, Cultural Theorist, University of Rhode Island; Michael Gomez, Historian, New York University; Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Anthropologist and Activist, LaGuardia Community College; Sienna Merope-Synge, Co-Director, Global Justice Clinic Caribbean Climate Justice Initiative; Amelia Moore, Sociocultural Anthropologist, University of Rhode Island; Boumba Nixon, Human Rights Activist, Haiti Mining Justice Collective; Kevon Rhiney, Geographer, Rutgers University
This interdisciplinary symposium probes the scope and scale of present-day Caribbean social emergencies brought about by climate colonialism and centuries of racial capitalism. We assess the opportunities for regional transformation, transnational accountability, and reparative ways of knowing and dwelling amid crisis. We focus on what climate repair looks like today — the emerging vital alignments that seek to interrupt capitalist systems of death and environmental destruction.
Generously co-sponsored by: Robert L. Heibroner Center for Capitalism Studies; The New School for Social Research, The Department of Sociology and the Department of Historical Studies; Eugene Lang College, Global Studies; Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence,