Voices ‘For Our Common Home’: Gonzaga Climate Institute’s fall lecture series

Voices ‘For Our Common Home’: Gonzaga Climate Institute’s fall lecture series

News brief by FāVS Staff

Gonzaga University’s Institute for Climate, Water and the Environment recently announced their new fall lecture lineup.

“For Our Common Home Lecture Series” begins on Sept. 4 with a talk on climate change through the eyes of women and indigenous people.

This lecture features Bi Zhao, a Gonzaga assistant professor of political science. It will start at 6 p.m. in the Hemmingson Auditorium and online via livestream.

Four more lectures follow at various dates and times through Dec. 3.

One talk focuses on how searing heat and other natural disasters challenge the state of our democracy. Another presents the local candidates for political office and asks them what they think about climate change.

For more information on the subjects discussed and the speakers’ bios, visit the Institute’s website.

All lectures are free and open to the public and registration is encouraged.

The fall lineup follows.

Sept. 4

• “Who tells your story? Framing of climate change by women and indigenous peoples at the United Nations”
• Speaker: Bi Zhao, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gonzaga University

Sept. 16

• “Democracy in a hotter time”
• Speaker: David Orr, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University

Oct. 2

• “Spokane Candidates Climate Change Forum” (in Globe Room and online)

Oct. 22

• “Rewilding the Urban Frontier: Book reading and panel discussion”
• Speakers: Greg Gordon, Margo Hill, Heidi Lasher and Robert L. Bartlett

Dec. 3

• “Confronting population denial amid unraveling global crises”
• Speaker: Nandita Bajaj, Executive Director at Population Balance and Senior Lecturer at Antioch University (Zoom only)