SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures
Hosted by the European Union Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This talk features FAA faculty Akima Brackeen (Architecture), Omar Perez Figueroa (Urban & Regional Planning), and Rebecca Walker (Urban & Regional Planning) in conversation with educators from across the globe.
March 7-8
Levis Faculty Center 210
What does it mean to imagine and implement climate justice? This interdisciplinary symposium is driven by the urgent need for a range of interventions and tools: critique, experimentation, imagination, pragmatics and policy. Bringing together thinkers from Europe and the U.S., speakers explore climate, energy, and infrastructure across networked urban and regional scales: from city to region to nation to planet. The symposium stages a conversation among scholars and practitioners who too rarely are in conversation, but have much to learn from each other. The symposium is made possible by the European Union Center’s funding as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence through the project “SMAART: Sustainable Methods for Adapting and Adopting Regional Technologies.” It is generously co-sponsored by the Climate | Change Research Initiative at the Center for Advanced Study at UIUC.
Final schedule to follow shortly. Questions and requests for disability accommodation can be directed to EU Center RA Kelsi Quick at kelsiq2@illinois.edu.
Presenters:
Chloe Ahmann (Anthropology, Cornell University)
Gretchen Bakke (Anthropology, Humboldt University, IRI THESys)
John Levi Barnard (English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Lauren Becker (City of Carbondale)
Akima Brackeen (Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Nina Idemudia (Center for Neighborhood Technologies, Chicago)
McKenzie Johnson (Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Andy Jonas (Human Geography, University of Hull)
Jamie Jones (English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Graeme MacDonald (English, University of Warwick)
Rebecca Oh (English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Valentina Orioli (Urban Planning, University of Bologna, Municipality of Bologna)
Omar Perez Figueroa (Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Matt Soener (Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Jorge Martin Sainz de los Terreros (Architecture, Humboldt University)
Scott Tess (City of Urbana)
Rebecca Walker (Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)