An ongoing event series, featuring panel discussions, films, and calls to action.
2024-2025
In our era of climate-fueled superstorms, mass displacement, and resource wars, people are rising up against the unceasing violence of extraction, enclosure, and colonial dispossession. What resources do we have to break from this world of extraction and exploitation, and the institutions and worldviews that naturalize it?
More than a platform for dialogue, this virtual event series is a call to action. Join scholar-activists, scientists, conservationists, and frontline defenders of water and land as we co-create a natural history for our world in crisis – one that confronts the systems that reproduce colonial and ecological harms, supports communities leading struggles for justice, and honors and preserves life in all its forms – past, present, and future.
A virtual programming series organized by Red Natural History Fellows with The Natural History Museum.
Made possible with support from the Henry Luce Foundation, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and 4Culture.Â
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Events
The Colorado River and the Colonial Blindspot
This panel explores the role that Western science plays in naturalizing the colonial intrusions that produced the contemporary water crisis on the Colorado River, revealing solutions to the crisis that are unimaginable from the settler-colonial view.
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Indigenizing Coastal Conservation
Focusing on ongoing work to fight coastal erosion on the Pacific coast, this panel engages a frank conversation with Native and non-Native ocean conservation practitioners grappling with the complexities of decolonizing and Indigenizing conservation.
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Resisting the Global Land Grab
This Zoom webinar explores how histories of colonialism, apartheid and uneven development have set the terms for today’s “solutions” to ecological crisis, engaging not only the common conditions of oppression faced by Indigenous communities across the world, but also the solidarities they are forging in their shared struggle against neocolonial conservation—and for Land Back.
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Aquifer Defenders: Learning from Waadookawaad Amikwag
Uplifting the work of Waadookawaad Amikwag (Those Who Help Beaver), this Zoom Webinar explores how Indigenous knowledge and Western science can be mobilized to halt the destruction caused by pipelines, stop future projects, and protect the land and water for future generations–in Minnesota and beyond.
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What Comes After the Wilderness Act?
Bringing together historians, legal experts, and impacted community members, this Zoom roundtable explores how we should understand the Wilderness Act on its 60th anniversary—a moment both of Indigenous resurgence and a rising far right.
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