The Center for the Humanities

Join us Thu, Nov 12th at 3 PM for "Energy Democracy and the Green New Deal," a conversation with activists and thinkers Julian Brave NoiseCat (350.org & Data For Change & The Natural History Museum), Summer Sandoval (Uprose & Sunset Park Solar), Trevor Ngwane (Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee), Ashley Dawson (CUNY Climate Action Lab / The Graduate Center, CUNY) and David Hughes (Rutgers Climate Institute) whose work is helping to move the fight for energy democracy forward.... Wildfires, hurricanes, famines, and the pandemic we live on a planet already in deep ecological crisis, with worse to come if today’s climate inaction, soaring inequality, and state violence continue. To shift things and win a just transition, we need ambitious planning and abundant struggle. Proposals from around the world for a Green New Deal have highlighted the need to win popular control of the infrastructures of energy production and distribution. Fossil capitalism must be shut down since further production of coal, oil, and gas will doom the planet to climate chaos. Meanwhile, construction of renewable energy must be massively accelerated. What are the obstacles to an energy transition that lifts up frontline communities, workers, Indigenous peoples, people in postcolonial nations, and others? How can we ensure that the transition is genuinely democratic and participatory? What combination of centralized and decentralized initiatives is appropriate given the need for an accelerated transition and the concern that the authoritarian structures of fossil capitalism not be reproduced in a new form of green capitalism/colonialism? The event is free and open to the public and will be ASL interpreted and closed captioned. Click to Register for this event and for more info, including speaker bios: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org//energy-democracy-a

Read this new essay "Prefigurative Activism as an Inspiration for Expanding Pedagogical Possibilities" by André Luis Leite de Figueirêdo Sales as part of our ongoing series on COVID-19 and pedagogy. In this essay, André Luis Leite de Figueirêdo Sales reflects on how models of prefigurative activism from Brazilian high school student ativistas making their own schools to ACT UP's imperative to "act as if you had the power to produce reality" might inspire educators to reimagi...ne their roles as activists in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full essay on Distributaries, our ongoing publication series of collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org//prefigurative-acti André Luis Leite de Figueirêdo Sales is a Brazilian Social Psychologist who loves untold stories, music and movies. He is a Post Doctoral Associate Researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a fellow at São Paulo Research Foundation, and a former fellow of the Canadian Federal Government under the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program. André has written four books on Brazilian contemporary activism, and he is currently working on the fifth one. He studies social movements, protests, and collective actions focusing on people's behaviors, emotions, and intentions. https://www.centerforthehumanities.org//prefigurative-acti

TODAY! 1:00 PM (ET) Join activists Ysanet Batista (Woke Foods), Jacqueline Pilati (Reclaim Seed NYC), Olatokunboh Obasi (Omaroti Herbalism & Wellbeing: Well of Indigenous Wisdom School), and Amara Abdal Figueroa (Tierrafiltra) for a conversation on "Just Strategies: Pathways to Water, Food and Wellness" as the inaugural event from the ECHO Project Environment, Community, Humanities Oasis project led by Seminar Faculty Leader Ryan Mann-Hamilton (Professor of Anthropology at LaGuardia Community College), who will moderate the conversation. https://www.centerforthehumanities.org//just-strategies-pa

Did you miss #digitalprstudies this Friday? Not a problem! Enjoy these stills from the Zoom meeting & check out our colleagues: - Latin American Studies Assoc...iation - Digital Libraries of the Caribbean (https://dloc.com/vieques/all), - - Proyecto Historias Orales Cayeyanas (http://historias-orales-de-cayey.herokuapp.com/) - Visualizando El Apoyo Muto (https://storymaps.arcgis.com//3915e3b4f5954ae3b40239e58056) And don't forget to check out our newly updated website: puertoricosyllabus.com The site is now more accessible and user-centered with full English to Spanish translations being available soon.

<3 hope to see you today for the second Brewing Memories workshop. Check out these photos from the first workshop.

Still some space available for this amazing Medicinal Herbs Workshop with La Morada Chef Carolina Saavedra https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/pro/brewing-memories