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). 

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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.

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       The third Ways 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.

 
       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.