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23 February 2024 13:00 - 14:15 GMT
The first online 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 from critical theories explored by artists— into mainstream climate discourses and practices to redress ongoing oppressions and marginalizations (F.Sultana, Decolonizing Climate Coloniality).
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Dr. Farhana Sultana (BD/US) is an interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author who is broadly interested in nature-society relationships, political ecology, climate justice, water governance, critical development studies, transnational feminist scholarship, human rights and citizenship, and decolonizing global systems. She is a Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University (US), where she is also Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development at Independent University, Bangladesh. Find out more about Dr. Sultana’s work here.
Harjeet Singh is a global expert on the issues of climate impacts, migration and adaptation and has been supporting countries across the world on tackling climate change. He is the Global Engagement Director, at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. Until recently, he was Head of Global Political Strategy at Climate Action Network International (CAN-I). Before that, he led ActionAid International’s climate change work globally for almost 19 years. He has also co-founded Satat Sampada, a social enterprise that promotes sustainable and environmental solutions such as organic food and farming in India and beyond. A pivotal figure in the fight for climate justice and a Loss and Damage Fund, Harjeet has campaigned for action to address Loss and Damage within the United Nations climate negotiations over many years.
Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage is an online artistic research residency, a series of public events, and a set of commissioned texts, aimed at facilitating a transdisciplinary exchange around the issue of loss and damage caused by the climate crisis.
The Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program is part of the Loss and Damage Collaboration’s Art and Culture program and is supported by the Open Society Foundations.
