2021 Earth Week Events
The Tishman Center’s 2021 Earth Week is here! This year the theme is Transitions toward Climate Justice. Although environmental justice has always been an important part of the Tishman’s Center mission, it is even more pertinent this year due to the multiple acts of injustice in recent events.
Kicking off the events on Tuesday 4/20, we have a pivotal conversation within the New School community: The Curriculum of the Anthropocene. A panel of New School faculty, moderated by the inaugural Aronson Fellow, will discuss how the New School can better prepare students for modern day issues such as climate change. Students are encouraged to join and contribute to the conversation.
On Wednesday 4/21, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson will deliver the keynote address. Best known for her TED talk on the coral reef crisis and her recent environmental book “All We Can Save”, Dr. Johnson will bring forth justice issues with her emphasis on intersectional environmentalism. Professor Mia White from the New School will moderate the conversation.
On Thursday 4/22, we have two back to back events. First, the book launch for the environmental book “The World We Need” will feature a panel with the authors. The panel includes two New School faculty and staff members Ana Baptista and Angela Mahecha, who both contributed to the book and moderated by New School Alum Audrea Lim
Next, as part of our Communities in Crisis series, the “Nourishing Communities of Life: Indigenous Resurgence beyond Syndemic Violence & Earth Crisis” event will bring together international voices across the Americas to discuss decoloniality and its role in environmental justice. Professor Leonardo Figueroa Helland from the New School will moderate the conversation.
Thanks to our capacity to host remote events, our 2021 Earth Week events promise to deliver a wide range of voices from the New School community, as well as from national and international communities. We welcome all audiences to join in on these important conversations!
And check out our 2021 Reading List blog post featuring work by some of our panelists.
And feel free to share about Earth Week on social media and join the conversation online!