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 Damageonline symposium is the culmination of a year-long artist research residency and the commissioning of three “Texts of Repair” it will take place over nine sessions across two weeks between the 20th and 29th of January 2025.
Week two will see themed panel discussions during which the artists in residence, commissioned critical thinkers and Loss and Damage experts will explore the critical links between the Loss and Damage discourse and themes already being widely explored within the arts and humanities in response to the combined climate, human rights, and environmental crisis, and the drive towards decolonization.
Find the registration links under the description of each online session below. Find the PDF schedule for the Symposium here.
Session #1 :
January 20th 2025 | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT
In this session, award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology T.J. Demos will present the text “Gaza Genocide, Climate Colonialism, and Survival Media: What it would Mean to Repair Loss and Damage” which brings a critical analysis to Loss and Damage discourse by focusing on the aesthetics and politics of experimental artistic practices that connect harm and reparation to care and transformation in the context of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza with the intention of extending the horizon of flourishing ecological futurity beyond green capitalist solutionism.
In this session, Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist,award-winning writer and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs, will present the text “Tell the Others.” which is guided by the last works of the poet and environmentalist Audre Lorde. In “Tell the Others” Gumbs has created a written ceremony in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl that that meets us at the shoreline of loss, the swell of grief, the multi-life form convergence of disaster, with questions, offerings and provocations that support us in finding a collective way forward in the details of our survival.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities has held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Alexis is the author of Survival Is a Promise : The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024).
Session #3 :
January 22th 2025 | 14:00 - 15:00 GMT
In this session, interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author Farhana Sultana will present the text “Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate Change”, which draws on insights from various Global South and Indigenous scholars and argues for the urgent need to decolonize the institutions that govern climate science and policy. Highlighting the significant, yet often overlooked epistemic injustice of as a form of climate injustice, she calls for a fundamental rethinking of how climate knowledge is created, shared, and used, centering the voices and expertise of those who have been most affected by climate change but least empowered to shape its trajectory.
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.
Session #4 :
January 23th 2025 | 14:00 - 15:00 GMT
In this session, multidisciplinary artist Zahra Malkani will present her artist research project “A Ubiquitous Wetness”, which explores musical and oral traditions that bring together devotion and dissent, poetry and protest as forms of remembrance and resistance against environmental devastation, dispossession and erasure. Engaging with these sounds as intimate and embodied teaching tools packed with deep ecological wisdom offering practices that survive, adapt and endure, she brings forth the rich and situated ecological knowledges and the revolutionary spirit contained in these sounds as a kind of eco-pedagogy.
Zahra Malkani is a multidisciplinary artist. Collaboration, research and pedagogy are at the heart of her practice, exploring sound, dissent and devotion against militarism and infrastructural violence.
Session #5 :
January 24th 2025| 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
In this session, cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector Nombuso Mathibela and urbanist and cultural worker Sibonelo Gumede will present their artist research project “Phoshoza” which is an ongoing sound-based archival transgenerational artistic research project that explores Princess Constance Magogo Sibilile Mantithi Ngangezinye kaDinizulu’s ugubhu traditional sound and photographic family archive. The project aims to position Princess Magogo's music and cultural production as an ecological practice by engaging with the bow instrument as an ecosphere. An approach intended to facilitate an examination of the intangible Loss and Damage inflicted by the climate crisis on cultural heritage and identity as well as its connection to colonial modernity in South Africa.
Nombuso Mathibela is a cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the founder of Jewel Scents & Song, a pan African research and production studio.
Sibonelo Gumede is an urbanist and cultural worker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gumede’s practice is concerned with engaging with the temporalities of colonial afterlives through spatial markers, with the aim of fostering connective memory and reparative practices.
Session #6 :
January 24th 2025| 17:00 - 18:00 GMT
In this session, architect, urban planner, researcher, professor, and curator Gabriela De Matos, will present her artist research project “Candomblé terreiros: Sacred Shields Against Salvador’s Climate Crisis” that explores how terreiros —the sacred spaces of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion— through their ancestral knowledge and their relationship with nature preservation, could address the loss and damage being caused by the climate crisis in the city of Salvador, Brazil. By documenting construction techniques and spatial arrangements, De Matos demonstrates the terreiros' microclimatic influence and their role in enhancing local living conditions in urban spaces in relation to climate intensified events such as heat waves.The project is part of Gabriela’s ongoing research on Afro-Brazilian architecture examined through an intersectional lens of race, culture, and environmental justice.
Gabriela De Matos is an architect, urban planner, researcher, professor, and curator. Gabriela’s background is in Sustainability and Management of the Built Environment.
Session #7 :
January 27th 2025 | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT
In this panel discussion award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology T.J. Demos, cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector Nombuso Mathibela, urbanist and cultural worker Sibonelo Gumede and one other speaker will bring a critical analysis to Loss and Damage discourse through the consideration of music and cultural production as an ecological practice and and the aesthetics and politics of experimental artistic practices that connect harm and reparation to care and transformation. This discussion will center upon the following key topics: Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the extension of the horizon of flourishing ecological futurity beyond green capitalist solutionism, intangible Loss and Damage inflicted by the climate crisis on cultural heritage and identity and its connection to colonial modernity in South Africa.
Nombuso Mathibela is a cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the founder of Jewel Scents & Song, a pan African research and production studio.
T. J. Demos is an award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology.
Sibonelo Gumede is an urbanist and cultural worker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gumede’s practice is concerned with engaging with the temporalities of colonial afterlives through spatial markers, with the aim of fostering connective memory and reparative practices.
Session #8 :
January 28th 2028 | 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
In this panel discussion Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist, award-winning writer and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs, multidisciplinary artist Zahra Malkani and one other speaker, will consider how musical and oral traditions and ceremonies that bring together devotion and dissent, poetry and protest as forms of remembrance and resistance against environmental devastation, dispossession and erasure can meet us at the shoreline of loss to support us in finding a collective way forward in the details of our survival in this era of loss and damage from climate change. This discussion will center upon the following key topics: ecological wisdom and situated ecological knowledges, the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, the musical and oral traditions in Pakistan.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities has held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Alexis is the author of Survival Is a Promise : The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024).
Zahra Malkani is a multidisciplinary artist. Collaboration, research and pedagogy are at the heart of her practice, exploring sound, dissent and devotion against militarism and infrastructural violence.
Session #9 :
January 29th 2025 | 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
In this panel discussion interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author Farhana Sultana, architect, urban planner, researcher, professor, and curator Gabriela De Matos, and the founder and executive director of Climate Refugees, Amali Tower, will consider why, in the context of Loss and Damage, a fundamental rethinking of how climate knowledge is created, shared and used is needed, one centering the voices and expertise of those who have been most affected by the climate crisis yet are the least empowered to shape its trajectory.This discussion will center upon the following key topics: Afro-Brazilian architecture examined through an intersectional lens of race, culture, and environmental justice, climate induced migration and displacement, and the urgent need to decolonize the institutions that govern climate science and policy.
Amali Tower founder and executive director of Climate Refugees,
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.
Gabriela De Matos is an architect, urban planner, researcher, professor, and curator. Gabriela’s background is in Sustainability and Management of the Built Environment.
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.
Symposium
The Ways of Repair : Loss and Damageonline symposium is the culmination of a year-long artist research residency and the commissioning of three “Texts of Repair” it will take place over nine sessions across two weeks between the 20th and 29th of January 2025.
Week two will see themed panel discussions during which the artists in residence, commissioned critical thinkers and Loss and Damage experts will explore the critical links between the Loss and Damage discourse and themes already being widely explored within the arts and humanities in response to the combined climate, human rights, and environmental crisis, and the drive towards decolonization.
Find the registration links under the description of each online session below. Find the PDF schedule for the Symposium here.
Session #1 :
January 20th 2025 | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT
In this session, award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology T.J. Demos will present the text “Gaza Genocide, Climate Colonialism, and Survival Media: What it would Mean to Repair Loss and Damage” which brings a critical analysis to Loss and Damage discourse by focusing on the aesthetics and politics of experimental artistic practices that connect harm and reparation to care and transformation in the context of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza with the intention of extending the horizon of flourishing ecological futurity beyond green capitalist solutionism.
In this session, Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist,award-winning writer and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs, will present the text “Tell the Others.” which is guided by the last works of the poet and environmentalist Audre Lorde. In “Tell the Others” Gumbs has created a written ceremony in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl that that meets us at the shoreline of loss, the swell of grief, the multi-life form convergence of disaster, with questions, offerings and provocations that support us in finding a collective way forward in the details of our survival.
In this session, interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author Farhana Sultana will present the text “Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate Change”, which draws on insights from various Global South and Indigenous scholars and argues for the urgent need to decolonize the institutions that govern climate science and policy. Highlighting the significant, yet often overlooked epistemic injustice of as a form of climate injustice, she calls for a fundamental rethinking of how climate knowledge is created, shared, and used, centering the voices and expertise of those who have been most affected by climate change but least empowered to shape its trajectory.
In this session, multidisciplinary artist Zahra Malkani will present her artist research project “A Ubiquitous Wetness”, which explores musical and oral traditions that bring together devotion and dissent, poetry and protest as forms of remembrance and resistance against environmental devastation, dispossession and erasure. Engaging with these sounds as intimate and embodied teaching tools packed with deep ecological wisdom offering practices that survive, adapt and endure, she brings forth the rich and situated ecological knowledges and the revolutionary spirit contained in these sounds as a kind of eco-pedagogy.
In this session, cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector Nombuso Mathibela and urbanist and cultural worker Sibonelo Gumede will present their artist research project “Phoshoza” which is an ongoing sound-based archival transgenerational artistic research project that explores Princess Constance Magogo Sibilile Mantithi Ngangezinye kaDinizulu’s ugubhu traditional sound and photographic family archive. The project aims to position Princess Magogo's music and cultural production as an ecological practice by engaging with the bow instrument as an ecosphere. An approach intended to facilitate an examination of the intangible Loss and Damage inflicted by the climate crisis on cultural heritage and identity as well as its connection to colonial modernity in South Africa.
In this session, architect, urban planner, researcher, professor, and curator Gabriela De Matos, will present her artist research project “Candomblé terreiros: Sacred Shields Against Salvador’s Climate Crisis” that explores how terreiros —the sacred spaces of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion— through their ancestral knowledge and their relationship with nature preservation, could address the loss and damage being caused by the climate crisis in the city of Salvador, Brazil. By documenting construction techniques and spatial arrangements, De Matos demonstrates the terreiros' microclimatic influence and their role in enhancing local living conditions in urban spaces in relation to climate intensified events such as heat waves.The project is part of Gabriela’s ongoing research on Afro-Brazilian architecture examined through an intersectional lens of race, culture, and environmental justice.
In this panel discussion award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology T.J. Demos, cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector Nombuso Mathibela, urbanist and cultural worker Sibonelo Gumede and one other speaker will bring a critical analysis to Loss and Damage discourse through the consideration of music and cultural production as an ecological practice and and the aesthetics and politics of experimental artistic practices that connect harm and reparation to care and transformation. This discussion will center upon the following key topics: Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the extension of the horizon of flourishing ecological futurity beyond green capitalist solutionism, intangible Loss and Damage inflicted by the climate crisis on cultural heritage and identity and its connection to colonial modernity in South Africa.
In this panel discussion Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist, award-winning writer and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs, multidisciplinary artist Zahra Malkani and one other speaker, will consider how musical and oral traditions and ceremonies that bring together devotion and dissent, poetry and protest as forms of remembrance and resistance against environmental devastation, dispossession and erasure can meet us at the shoreline of loss to support us in finding a collective way forward in the details of our survival in this era of loss and damage from climate change. This discussion will center upon the following key topics: ecological wisdom and situated ecological knowledges, the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, the musical and oral traditions in Pakistan.
In this panel discussion interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author Farhana Sultana, architect, urban planner, researcher, professor, and curator Gabriela De Matos, and the founder and executive director of Climate Refugees, Amali Tower, will consider why, in the context of Loss and Damage, a fundamental rethinking of how climate knowledge is created, shared and used is needed, one centering the voices and expertise of those who have been most affected by the climate crisis yet are the least empowered to shape its trajectory.This discussion will center upon the following key topics: Afro-Brazilian architecture examined through an intersectional lens of race, culture, and environmental justice, climate induced migration and displacement, and the urgent need to decolonize the institutions that govern climate science and policy.
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.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities has held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Alexis is the author of Survival Is a Promise : The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024).
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.
Zahra Malkani is a multidisciplinary artist. Collaboration, research and pedagogy are at the heart of her practice, exploring sound, dissent and devotion against militarism and infrastructural violence.
Nombuso Mathibela is a cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the founder of Jewel Scents & Song, a pan African research and production studio.
Sibonelo Gumede is an urbanist and cultural worker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gumede’s practice is concerned with engaging with the temporalities of colonial afterlives through spatial markers, with the aim of fostering connective memory and reparative practices.
Gabriela De Matos is an architect, urban planner, researcher, professor, and curator. Gabriela’s background is in Sustainability and Management of the Built Environment.
T. J. Demos is an award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology.
Nombuso Mathibela is a cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sibonelo Gumede is an urbanist and cultural worker based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and award-winning writer and poet. Alexis is the author of Survival Is a Promise : The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024).
Zahra Malkani is a multidisciplinary artist. Collaboration, research and pedagogy are at the heart of her practice, exploring sound, dissent and devotion against militarism and infrastructural violence.
Dr. Farhana Sultana is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar in water governance, climate justice, political ecology, and international development.
Gabriela De Matos is an architect, urban planner, researcher, professor, and curator. Gabriela’s background is in Sustainability and Management of the Built Environment.
Amali Tower founder and executive director of Climate Refugees,
Workshop 1
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.
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Workshop 3
Symposium: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In gravida congue imperdiet. Etiam sit amet efficitur sem. Integer quis dolor enim. Quisque ornare semper suscipit. Sed sit amet tincidunt felis. Sed suscipit ultrices dui eu porta. Ut laoreet tincidunt metus, ac porta metus vestibulum ut. Suspendisse vulputate arcu enim, vel scelerisque neque tincidunt eget. Pellentesque in dictum mauris. In in ultricies nunc. Fusce a malesuada elit. In bibendum ipsum tincidunt dapibus molestie. Vestibulum id turpis eget augue dignissim congue et in dolor.
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