Ecohumanities for Cities in Crisis APRIL – OCTOBER 2016 - All events free and open to the public

Explore the challenges 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?

FRIDAY, APRIL 8 from 1-6pm, HistoryMiami Museum FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, exhibition opening 7:00pm, The Fragile Habitat: Conversations for Miami’s Future Wolfsonian-FIU Opening Symposium, featuring a Keynote Panel, a Moderated Visionary Urbanism: Tony Garnier’s Une Cité Industrielle Discussion of Diversity in Miami Environmentalism, and Tours Reception and informal gallery talk. Exhibit on display at the Wolfsonian-FIU through December APRIL-JUNE, Various Locations Fragile Habitat: Community Conversations for Miami’s Future WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 reception 6:30pm, event Check ecohumanities.fiu.edu for updated schedule and at 7pm Vizcaya Museum & Gardens locations of community conversations in the series An Emotional Lexicon for Climate Change: Wonder, With HistoryMiami and Catalyst Miami Denial, Disappointment, Grief, and Hope Reflect with local environmental humanities scholars on TUESDAY, JUNE 14 from 10am-3pm, The Kampong, how arts and culture can help us understand the feelings we might have as we think about climate change. Using Environmental Humanities in the Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Social Studies Workshop SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 from 10:30-12:30, The For Miami-Dade County Public School Teachers, By Invitation Only. Wolfsonian-FIU With The Kampong, M-DCPS Department of Social Sciences, Ephemeral Cities: The Politics and Poetics of and International University Environmental Crisis Participate with nationally-recognized humanities scholars THURSDAY, JUNE 16 7pm, The Kampong, Coconut Grove in a discussion of design responses to natural disaster and The History of the World in Your Own Backyard: Mangos and environmental change. Mango Trees Tour the unique collection of mangos from around the world at The Kampong with local environmental humanities scholars. ecohumanities.fiu.edu #ecohumanities305

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