“Resistance & resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico - Exploring Environmental History” Panel (Yale School of the Environment)

Event time:

Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location:

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Event description:

The environmental crisis in the Caribbean has deep roots in colonial patterns of exploitation of human labor and nature. Exploring environmental history allows us to delve into that past as part of the struggle for a “Culture of Nature”.

Our speakers for this session include:

Tania López Marrero, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Juan Giusti Cordero, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Claudia Martínez Herrera, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba

Jorge Nieves Rivera, Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Gurabo, Puerto Rico

Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez y Universidad de La Habana, Cuba