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Explore the challenges Miami faces from climate change through culture and history.Join nationally recognized scholars and local environmentalists for stories about our connections to this unique and fragile landscape. How can we come together to imagine our future and prioritize what is most valuable, just, and worthy of preservation?
Organized by the Department of History of the Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University in collaboration with HistoryMiami Museum, The Kampong, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Dade County Public Schools’ Department of Social Sciences, the FIU Green Library Digital Collections Center, and Catalyst Miami
Made possible in part by a major grant from the Humanities in the Public Square Initiative of The National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence
Explore the challenges Miami faces from climate change through culture and history. Join nationally recognized scholars and local environmentalists for stories about our connections to this unique and fragile landscape. How can we come together to imagine our future and prioritize what is most valuable, just, and worthy of preservation?
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Discuss art and technology in Miami with creative technologists Kevin Arrow and Barron Sherer, co-founders of the picture and film archive Obsolete Media Miami, and Willie Avendano, co-founder of Wynwood education lab 01.
Registration and more information http://bit.ly/CreativeTechnologiesDeeringEstate or call 305-235-1668 ext. 238
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us to hear an unusual combination of perspectives representing the intersection of human experience and science in the Everglades. Speakers offer insights to move us beyond a simplistic story of agriculture vs. environment in hopes of protecting the ecosystem’s health.
Registration and more information at https://rightwaterfiuvizcaya.eventbrite.com
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Eco-Theater Lab is a creative workshop for artists, environmental experts, and everybody else to confront pressing questions about humanity’s relationship to our planet through the lens of theater. These labs offer participants a creative way to grapple with real and hypothetical climate challenges in generative atmosphere that engages the hopeful imagination.
Registration and more information at https://www.climakazemiami.org/ecotheater-labs/
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Co-Sponsored with the Women in Leadership Miami and Catalyst Miami
Location: Blessed Catering
5711 NW 7th Ave
Miami, FL 33127
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Co-Sponsored with the FIU Jean Monnet Project, European & Eurasian Studies, Spanish & Mediterranean Studies, and the Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
Location: Vizcaya Village Garage
3250 S. Miami Ave
Miami, FL 33129
Additional Information and free tickets: bit.ly/LivingWithWater
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Co-Sponsored with HistoryMiami and the Miami Dade County Public Library System
Location: South Dade Regional Library Branch
10750 SW 211th St
Cutler Bay, FL 33189
Additional Information and free tickets: bit.ly/FragileHabitatSouthDade
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Co-Sponsored with the Historic Hampton House, the FIU Atlantic History Colloquium, and the FIU African & African Diaspora Studies Program
Location: Historic Hampton House
4240 NW 27th Ave
Miami FL 33142
Additional Information and free tickets: http://bit.ly/DeepRootsMiami
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Co-Sponsored with HistoryMiami and the Miami Dade County Public Library System
Location: Northeast Dade – Aventura Branch Library
2930 Aventura Blvd
Aventura, FL 33180
Additional Information and free tickets: bit.ly/FragileHabitatNorthDade
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Participate with nationally-recognized humanities scholars in a discussion of design responses to natural disaster and environmental change.
6:30PM - Reception, Event at 7:00PM
Reflect with local environmental humanities scholars on how arts and culture can help us understand the feelings we might have as we think about climate change.
7:00PM -
Reception and informal gallery talk. Exhibit on display at the Wolfsonian-FIU through December.
6:45PM - 9:00PM
Tour the unique collection of mangos from around the world at The Kampong with local environmental humanities scholars.
Additional Information and free tickets: bit.ly/MangoCafe
1:00PM - 6:00PM
Featuring a Keynote Panel, a Moderated Discussion of Diversity in Miami Environmentalism, and Tours.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
