Tuesday, March 7, 2023
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Jowkowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Join us for a hybrid conference on climate justice and extractive economic policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, part of the 2022-2023 lectureship that CLACS is organizing with the support of the Dean of the Faculty's Office.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Virtual Events
Event Program
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. | “Fly Me to the Moon”
Patsy Lewis (CLACS Director) in conversation with filmmaker Esther Figueroa
11:30 - 1:00 p.m. | Panel 1: Extractivist Sectors and Challenges of Alternative Energy
"Extractivist Sectors and Challenges of Alternative Energy" | Luis Martin Valdiviezo Arista
"Can the Energy Transition be Fair? The Politics of Extraction in South America’s Lithium Triangle"| Richard Synder and Lucas Gonzalez
“Dishing the Dirt on Bauxite Mining in the Caribbean” | Mimi Sheller
"Ecosystem Restoration and Climate Justice: Alternative Imaginings in an Era of Climate Change" | Danielle Nembhard
“Defending the defenders: How the politics of consent can restore our world” | Manuela Picq
1:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch break
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Panel 2: Climate Adaptation: Alternative Strategies and Perspectives
Chair: Macarena Gomez-Barris
"Beyond illegality: Accumulation and Stigma in the Amazonian borders" | Deborah Delgado
"The frontiers of carbon offsetting: international markets in Indigenous and campesino territories in Mexico" | Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre
"Food shortage in the wake of extractivism: How the climate and environmental impacts of extractive industries in the Rupununi leads to food insecurity" | Imaculata Kasimero