Program
Wednesday, February 21
Location: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm at Keller Hall, Center for the Arts, UNM Main Campus (Building #62 on UNM Campus Map)
5:00 pm: Keller Hall—door opens
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Welcome & Introduction
Opening Prayer and Welcome to Our Homeland—Petuuche Gilbert, Acoma
Welcome—The Honorable Senator Tom Udall
Introduction – Subhankar Banerjee, convener
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Multispecies Solidarity
Maria Williams
David Solomon
Allison Akootchook Warden
Moderator: Kymberly Pinder, Dean, College of Fine Arts, UNM
(Note: An evening with history, music, performance)
Thursday, February 22
Location: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm at the Student Union Building (SUB) Ballroom C (Building #60 on UNM Campus Map)
5:30 pm – 7:45 pm at Keller Hall, Center for the Arts
8:30 am: SUB Ballroom C—door opens
9:00 am – 10:15 am: Climate Breakdown?
Ken Tape
David Gutzler
Moderator: William Pockman, Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, UNM
(Note: Impacts of climate change in Alaska & the Southwest)
10:30 am – 12 noon: Protecting the Sacred Place Where Life Begins
Sarah James
Ken Whitten
Vicki Clarke
Moderator: Michael Dax, Defenders of Wildlife, New Mexico
(Note: On the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Rights of Nature
Nicole Whittington-Evans
Debbie Miller
Jeff Fair
Moderator: Mary Tsiongas, Associate Dean of Faculty, College of Fine Arts, UNM
(Note: On environmental conservation, justice, law, and ethics)
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Alaska and Beyond
Stephen Brown
Finis Dunaway
Moderator: Joseph Cook, Professor, Department of Biology, UNM
(Note: On transnational ecology and grassroots activism)
5:30 pm: Keller Hall, Center for the Arts—door opens
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Next North
Julie Decker
Brian Adams
Marek Ranis
Moderator: Arif Khan, Director, UNM Art Museum
(Note: On art, the North, and climate change)
Friday, February 23
Location: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm at the Student Union Building (SUB) Ballroom C —
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Woodward Lecture Hall (Building #82 on UNM Campus Map)
8:30 am: SUB Ballroom C—door opens
9:00 am – 10:45 am: Protecting Our Seas and Coastal Communities
Melanie Smith
Rick Steiner
Rosemary Ahtuangaruak
Moderator: Samuel Truett, Associate Professor, Department of History, UNM
(Note: On marine ecology, environmental justice and indigenous rights—Bering, Beaufort, and the Chukchi Seas, and the federal proposed 5-yr offshore drilling plan and its impacts)
11:00 am – 12:45 pm: Truth to Power
Joel Clement
Pamela Miller
Robert Thompson
Moderator: Traci Quinn, Curator of Education and Public Programs, UNM Art Museum
(Note: On suppression of science, and intimidation, lies, myths, deception and broken promises)
Led by: Bernadette Demientieff
Monica Scherer
(Note: If you ever asked the question, “What can I do to help?”—register for this workshop on writing and organizing toward becoming an activist; lunch will be provided for all; registration is required for this session.
6:00 – 8:00 pm: Rise of The Red Nation
Melanie Yazzie
Nick Estes
Cheyenne Antonio
Jennifer Marley
Moderator: Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Associate Professor, American Studies, UNM
(Note: Diné-Pueblo solidarity to protect the Greater Chaco Canyon and Mni Wiconi: Water is Life)