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All times are listed in Pacific Time (PT). In compliance with the ADA/504, please direct your accommodation requests for any of these events to turnproject@scu.edu.

  

  • 9:15-10:00 AM
    Oct 11
    Water Justice | Research, Innovation, Collaboration and Diné Science Synergistically Addressing Water Challenges

    Raynalda Tsosie, Indigenous climate activist and scientist

    With Professor Ranalda Tsosie, New Mexico Institute for Mining and Technology, and proud Diné woman

    Moderated by Iris Stewart-Frey

    Co-presented by the Native American Coalition for Change and the Environmental Justice and the Common Good Initiative

    RSVP to attend by zoom

    To attend the talk at the St. Clare Room 3rd floor SCU Library. please rsvp here.

     

    Ranalda L. Tsosie is a post-doctoral scholar at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. She is currently working on a point os use filter optimization project and continuing to work with Indigenous communities and water challenges. Dr. Tsosie completed her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies with a subject emphasis in the fields of chemistry, geosciences and environmental science/studies from the University of Montana. In her free time, she enjoys beading, sewing, practicing traditional Diné arts.

     

  • 7:00-8:00 PM
    Oct 11
    Water is Life | Conversation Circle with Ranalda Tsosie, NM Institute for Mining and Technology

    Landscape of green hills and blue sky

    Conversation circle on how to think about water issues in our own communities and lives in ways that acknowledge and support Indigenous-led efforts to understand and honor water.  Co-presented by the tUrn Alumni for Action group, Native American Coalition for Change and the Environmental Justice and the Common Good Initiative

    Meet outside the library at the circle of chairs within the tree circle.

     

     

    This event is in-person (no zoom) only. Please RSVP if you can join us!

    To attend the conversation circle with Dr. Ranalda Tsosie, please RSVP here.

    Ranalda L. Tsosie is a post-doctoral scholar at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. She is currently working on a point os use filter optimization project and continuing to work with Indigenous communities and water challenges. Dr. Tsosie completed her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies with a subject emphasis in the fields of chemistry, geosciences and environmental science/studies from the University of Montana. In her free time, she enjoys beading, sewing, practicing traditional Diné arts.

     

     

  • 2:15-3:15 PM
    Oct 11
  • 3:30-5:00 PM
    Oct 11
    Writing Nature | A Writing Workshop with David Baker

    author david baker

    A workshop exploring varieties of nature writing in prose and poetry, with time for writing to explore, question, understand, and transform our experience in a rapidly changing world.

    Enter the spacious, quiet studio setting in the Music and Dance Building and give yourself the space and time to write into your depths and the world around you.

    Location: Dance Studio A Writing Lab, Franklin and Lafayette Streets

     

    kirk glaser with his dog
    Moderator KIRK GLASER teaches writing and literature at Santa Clara University, where he serves as Director of the Creative Writing Program and Faculty Advisor to the Santa Clara Review. His poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Nimrod, Split Rock, Chicago Quarterly Review, Catamaran, The Worcester Review, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. Awards for his work include an American Academy of Poets prize, C. H. Jones National Poetry Prize, and University of California Poet Laureate Award. He He is co-editor of the anthology, New California Writing 2013, Heyday.
    author david baker and his book Whale Fall
    Workshop facilitator DAVID BAKER is author of thirteen books of poetry, recently Whale Fall (Norton, 2022), Swift: New and Selected Poems, (2019), Scavenger Loop (2015), and Never-Ending Birds (2009), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. His six books of prose include Seek After: Essays on Modern Lyric Poets (2018) and Show Me Your Environment (2014). Among his awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, Mellon Foundation, and Poetry Society of America. His work appears in such journals as American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review.
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  • 7:00-8:00 PM
    Oct 11
    Climate Finance and International Theatre| Planetary Justice: Addressing the Elephant in the Room

    Taiwo Afolabi in theatre seats

    Screening of People, Planet and Performance Podcasts and conversation 

    with artist scholar Dr. Taiwo Afolabi and Dr. Naomi Andrew Haruna.

    DR. TAIWO AFOLABI is an interdisciplinary artistic scholar from Africa with internationally recognized expertise in research-based theatre focusing on social justice, human rights, and anti-racism education among Indigenous, immigrant, and marginalized communities. He is the Director of the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET) located at University of Regina in Saskatchewan, and is the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre (Tier II).

    Naomi HarunaDR. NAOMI ANDREW HARUNA is currently a Senior Lecturer with the department of Visual and Performing Arts University of Maiduguri, NIgeria, with a PhD in Cultural Sustainability. She holds a master’s degree in Advertising and Marketing from Coventry University, UK, and a bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts with a specialization in Graphics from University of Maiduguri. As a cultural enthusiast, Naomi is combining her training in Creative Arts, Visual Communication, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with her passion for Cultural Studies to find ways in which to sustainably promote peace, promote sustainable environmental practices, gender equality, and arts education within her community and society at large. Her research is mostly qualitative using bottom-top approaches using artistic practice methodologies. 

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    More information:

    Taiwo Afolabi presented the conversation Performance and Climate Finance/Sustainability, Capital and Planetary Justice livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Wednesday 9 August 2023.

    The concept of climate finance refers to monies provided by those responsible for climate change to ease the burden of the crises on those who bear the brunt. This is a situation whereby the polluter pays as much as they pollute. The attention placed on climate finance dominates the narrative of climate change mitigation since polluters are able to pay monies allocated to them as climate finance. Climate finance has not fully addressed the issue of the elephant in the room.

    Many climate activists such as Nnimmo Bassey have advocated against climate finance. They argue that it is not the way forward toward achieving planetary justice. In what ways could a total ban on the extraction enterprise prevent further depletion of the environment of the Global South? In this episode, experts discuss the concept of climate finance, its impact on planetary justice, and ways climate finance can chart novel ways of sustaining lives and communities and achieving planetary justice.

     

  • 8:00-9:00 PM
    Oct 11
    tUrnout: Student-Led Reflection Session & Climate Action Power Hour

    Photo of a group of smiling students with a night sky in the background

    Take action Monday–Thursday in a supportive group environment with fellow students who want to make a difference. Snacks, writing prompts, friendship. Led by tUrn student crew members.

    On Wednesday we meet at the Music & Dance Building near Dance Studio A

    Corner of Franklin and Lafayette streets

    Northwest corner of campus across the street from Togos