Taking place online between January 2024 and January 2025, the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage public online program will feature four key moments — three workshops and an online symposium — with the aim of diversify audiences and adding nuance and depth to public and policy-oriented discussions on Loss and Damage.
Throughout the four events, participants will gain insights into the contentious history of Loss and Damage negotiations, the ethical and political questions surrounding the issue, and where Loss and Damage fits into the struggle for climate justice.
Workshop #1
23 February 2024 | 13:00 - 14:15 GMT
The first workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Public Program will provide an introduction to the issue of loss and damage caused by the climate crisis. Through a dialogue between Loss and Damage expert and advocate Harjeet Singh and interdisciplinary scholar and author Dr. Farhana Sultana, the workshop seeks to explore what loss and damage is, provide a brief history of Loss and Damage under the United Nations Climate Negotiations, and consider what Loss and Damage means by unpacking the relationship between Loss and Damage, climate coloniality, calls for reparations and climate justice, as well as anti-colonial, civil rights, and other forms of activism. The workshops' speakers will also consider how can we integrate more decolonial, anticolonial, feminist, antiracist, and anticapitalist critiques, and struggles —including those explored by artists— into mainstream climate discourses and practices to redress ongoing oppressions and marginalizations (F.Sultana, Decolonizing Climate Coloniality).
Dr. Farhana Sultana is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar in water governance, climate justice, political ecology, and international development. She is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, USAFind out more about Dr. Sultana’s work here.
Harjeet Singh is a global expert on the issues of climate impacts, Loss and Damage migration, and adaptation. He is Global Engagement Director, at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.
Video credit: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage, Decolonising Climate Coloniality in an Era of Loss and Damage : A primer For Artist, 23, February, 2024.
Workshop #2
24 May 2024 | 13:00 - 14:30 GMT
The second workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Public Program will explore how the climate crisis is causing loss and damage to culture, identity, sense of place, heritage, ways of knowing and being, and the importance of bringing pluralistic ways of knowing to the Loss and Damage discourse. Through a dialogue between the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council,Andrea Carmen, and sociocultural anthropologist Robert Albro who is Associate Director of Research at the American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, (with other speakers yet to be confirmed), the workshop seeks to explore the challenges of understanding how the climate crisis is causing loss and damage to tangible, intangible —and often incommensurable things— such as culture, identity, sense of place and identity.
The session will also explore the importance of bringing pluralistic ways of knowing to Loss and Damage policy making and solutions, including Indigenous Knowledge of loss and damage and Indigenous methods to address it, as well as the role of artists within this work.
Highlighting the challenges that front line communities and Indigenous Peoples face when working to ensure the inclusion of traditional knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge and Science, and the rights Indigenous Peoples within climate policy making and initiatives, the workshops' speakers will also share thoughts on what must happen to ensure meaningful change.
Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Nation, is the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council. Find out more about Andrea's work here.
Dr Robert Albro is a sociocultural anthropologist and Associate Director of Research at the American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies. Find out more about Dr Albro's work here.
Video credit: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage, Understanding and Addressing Loss and Damage to Culture and Identity: a Primer for Artists, 24, May, 2024.
Workshop #3
04 October 2024 | 13:00 - 14:30 GMT
The third workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and DamagePublic Program will explore how repair, reparation and remedy can be understood and implemented in the context of loss and damage from climate change.
Structured around a dialogue between climate scientist and climate activist Isatis M. Cintron-Rodriguez of Columbia University and the Ace Observatory, philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, who is the author of Elite Captureand Reconsidering Reparations, and Ashish Ghadiali, the Founder/Director of Radical Ecology, co-chair of of the Black Atlantic Innovation Network and Co-Principal Investigator of Addressing the New Denialism, the workshop will consider: the limitations that stop Loss and Damage Policy under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from being able to deliver reparations, why we need to reconsider reparations as a global future-oriented project that will address the climate crisis, and the role that artists and critical thinkers can play in climate repair, reparation and remedy.
Video credit: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage, Repair and Reparation in the Context of Loss and Damage from Climate Change: a Primer for Artists, 04 October, 2024.
Symposium
The Ways of Repair: Loss and Damage symposium will be held in January 2025. Please signup to our mailing list for updates on how to attend, the theme of the workshop and what speakers will be present.
Public Program
Taking place online between January 2024 and January 2025, the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage public online program will feature four key moments — three workshops and an online symposium — with the aim of diversify audiences and adding nuance and depth to public and policy-oriented discussions on Loss and Damage.
Throughout the four events, participants will gain insights into the contentious history of Loss and Damage negotiations, the ethical and political questions surrounding the issue, and where Loss and Damage fits into the struggle for climate justice.
Workshop #1
23 February 2024 | 13:00 - 14:15 GMT
The first workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Public Program will provide an introduction to the issue of loss and damage caused by the climate crisis. Through a dialogue between Loss and Damage expert and advocate Harjeet Singh and interdisciplinary scholar and author Dr. Farhana Sultana, the workshop seeks to explore what loss and damage is, provide a brief history of Loss and Damage under the United Nations Climate Negotiations, and consider what Loss and Damage means by unpacking the relationship between Loss and Damage, climate coloniality, calls for reparations and climate justice, as well as anti-colonial, civil rights, and other forms of activism. The workshops' speakers will also consider how can we integrate more decolonial, anticolonial, feminist, antiracist, and anticapitalist critiques, and struggles —including those explored by artists— into mainstream climate discourses and practices to redress ongoing oppressions and marginalizations (F.Sultana, Decolonizing Climate Coloniality).
Video credit: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage, Decolonising Climate Coloniality in an Era of Loss and Damage : A primer For Artist, 23, February, 2024.
Workshop #2
24 May 2024 | 13:00 - 14:30 GMT
The second workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Public Program will explore how the climate crisis is causing loss and damage to culture, identity, sense of place, heritage, ways of knowing and being, and the importance of bringing pluralistic ways of knowing to the Loss and Damage discourse. Through a dialogue between the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council,Andrea Carmen, and sociocultural anthropologist Robert Albro who is Associate Director of Research at the American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, (with other speakers yet to be confirmed), the workshop seeks to explore the challenges of understanding how the climate crisis is causing loss and damage to tangible, intangible —and often incommensurable things— such as culture, identity, sense of place and identity.
The session will also explore the importance of bringing pluralistic ways of knowing to Loss and Damage policy making and solutions, including Indigenous Knowledge of loss and damage and Indigenous methods to address it, as well as the role of artists within this work.
Highlighting the challenges that front line communities and Indigenous Peoples face when working to ensure the inclusion of traditional knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge and Science, and the rights Indigenous Peoples within climate policy making and initiatives, the workshops' speakers will also share thoughts on what must happen to ensure meaningful change.
Video credit: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage, Understanding and Addressing Loss and Damage to Culture and Identity: a Primer for Artists, 24, May, 2024.
Workshop #3
04 October 2024 | 13:00 - 14:30 GMT
The third workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and DamagePublic Program will explore how repair, reparation and remedy can be understood and implemented in the context of loss and damage from climate change.
Structured around a dialogue between climate scientist and climate activist Isatis M. Cintron-Rodriguez of Columbia University and the Ace Observatory, philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, who is the author of Elite Captureand Reconsidering Reparations, and Ashish Ghadiali, the Founder/Director of Radical Ecology, co-chair of of the Black Atlantic Innovation Network and Co-Principal Investigator of Addressing the New Denialism, the workshop will consider: the limitations that stop Loss and Damage Policy under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from being able to deliver reparations, why we need to reconsider reparations as a global future-oriented project that will address the climate crisis, and the role that artists and critical thinkers can play in climate repair, reparation and remedy.
Video credit: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage, Repair and Reparation in the Context of Loss and Damage from Climate Change: a Primer for Artists, 04 October, 2024.
TheWays of Repair: Loss and Damage symposium will be held in January 2025. Please signup to our mailing list for updates on how to attend, the theme of the workshop and what speakers will be present.
Dr. Farhana Sultana is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar in water governance, climate justice, political ecology, and international development. She is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, USAFind out more about Dr. Sultana’s work here.
Harjeet Singh is a global expert on the issues of climate impacts, Loss and Damage migration, and adaptation. He is Global Engagement Director, at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.
Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Nation, is the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council. Find out more about Andrea's work here.
Dr Robert Albro is a sociocultural anthropologist and Associate Director of Research at the American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies. Find out more about Dr Albro's work here.
The second themedActs of Repair: Loss and Damage workshop will be held in May 2024. Please signup to our mailing list for updates on how to attend, the theme of the workshop and what speakers will be present.
Workshop 3
The Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage symposium will be held in January 2025. Please signup to our mailing list for updates on how to attend, the theme of the workshop and what speakers will be present.
The first themedActs of Repair: Loss and Damage workshop will be held in February 2024. Please signup to our mailing list for updates on how to attend, the theme of the workshop, and what speakers will be present.
Workshop 2
The tActs of Repair: Loss and Damage workshop will be held in October 2024. Please signup to our mailing list for updates on how to attend, the theme of the workshop and what speakers will be present.
Symposium
rebuilding relocating restoring ecosystems healing and remembering
“many peoples, groups and states cannot always say what Loss and Damage really means to them”
Addressing loss and damage requires a vast range of activities including:
“addressing loss and damage is an opportunity for transformation”
ACTS OF REPAIR: builds connections across different knowledge-building practices
art culture
Indigenous knowledge
science policy
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Eve Tuck: Eve Tuck is an Unangax̂ scholar in the field of Indigenous studies and educational research. Tuck is the associate professor of critical race and indigenous studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Recordings:
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Symposium
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Workshop 3
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