Past Events and Programs

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (New) – Spring 2022

Join us to read and discuss selections from "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice" by Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. From the book description: "to explore the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, ...

CATs in Virtual Learning Environments – Spring

Muddiest point...exit tickets...jigsaws... These are examples of classroom assessment techniques, or CATs - simple, non-graded, often anonymous in class or online activities to quickly assess student learning. Join us as we showcase different technology tools and classroom assessment techniques you can easily implement in your virtual classes to engage your students and quickly assess what ...

Civic Engagement for Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

The Civic Engagement for Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is fully online due to COVID-19. It involves three synchronous two-hour workshop-style sessions during Fall quarter during which participants hone their knowledge of climate justice issues and learn about ways to involve their students in civic engagement around this issue. With significant support, participants emerge ...

Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice

Join us to read and discuss the important book Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice (2021) by Jeremy Williams. The book highlights the intersection between white supremacy and environmental destruction to show that the two crises are symbiotic and reinforcing.  As the publisher's summary notes "In this eye-opening book, ...

Climate Justice & Biodiversity: Indigenous and Urban Perspectives Workshop 

How are we able to anticipate and reduce effects on biodiversity, particularly in urban settings and by those communities who feel the change most? This asynchronous online short course will begin by defining climate justice and biodiversity using Indigenous and Urban perspectives. Then provide an overview of relevant climate change impacts in Washington state and ...

Climate Justice Book Discussion: “How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire”

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion of non-violent vs. violent means of achieving policy changes and global commitment to addressing the damaging effects of climate change! David Spataro will lead a reading of the book "How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire" by Andreas Malm. From the publisher's ...

Climate Justice Book Discussion: As Long As Grass Grows

As we transition from a focus on climate change to climate and environmental justice, we can better understand all the ways in which racism has fueled and exacerbated the climate crisis. Join Christina Sciabarra (Political Science) and Elizabeth Harazim (English) for this book discussion to engage with Indigenous history and environmental movements. We will learn ...

Climate Justice Book Discussion: What Climate Justice Means

Please join us for a discussion of What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care (2022), in which philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. Using clear reasoning and poignant examples, Cripps starts from the irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules ...

Climate Justice Book Discussion: “Pollution is Colonialism”

Join facilitators Ferdinand Tablan (Philosophy) and Alice Jenkins (iBIT) to discuss Max Liboiron’s “Pollution is Colonialism.” The book presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on ...

Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

The Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community is an asynchronous workshop focused on climate issues. The learning community, which is modeled on a teaching square, is designed to help participants hone their knowledge of climate justice issues and, with significant support, to teach one lesson in an existing course that addresses the looming threats of climate ...