CGES@25: Beginning to End the Climate Crisis
12:00 - 1:00 pm Festive Luncheon (vegan)
- Welcome/MC: Sabine von Mering, CGES Director
- Greeting: Dorothy Hodgson, Dean of Arts and Sciences
- Greeting: Dr. Sonja Kreibich, Consul General of Germany to the New England States
- Greeting: Mary Fischer, Associate Director, Sustainability Programs, and Colleen Hitchcock, Chair of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor in Biology
1:00 - 2:05 pm
Keynote: Professor Simon Richter, Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania: “Plan D: Moving to Germany as the Final Dutch Climate Adaption Strategy”
2:20 - 3:40 pm Panel on Climate Justice:
- Prakash Kashwan, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and an Affiliated Faculty at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University: “Ecological Justice in the Age of Climate Crisis”
- Barbara Dombrowski, climate photographer: “A Lens on Climate Justice”
- Tonny Nowshin (via Zoom), “Decolonizing Degrowth”
- Facilitator: Toni Shapiro-Phim, Associate Professor of Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation and Co-Director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts & Liz Sandoval '25, Major: Business/Psycholgy
4:00 - 4:45 pm Book Launch: Beginning to End the Climate Crisis. A History of Our Future.
(Brandeis University Press, April 2023)
- Luisa Neubauer (via Zoom)
- Alexander Repenning
- Bill McKibben
- Sabine von Mering, CGES Director
Moderator: Miriam Wasser, WBUR
4:45 - 6:00 pm CHARRETTE “Let's Talk About Climate and What We Can Change”
Led by Phoebe Dolan, Co-Director, Maine Youth Power, alumna
Co-facilitators:
Rebecca Spinner '25, Majors: Environmental Studies and Philosophy
Leo Zhang '25, Major: Environmental Studies
Kate Danziger '23, Major: Environmental Studies and Biology, Minor: Climate Justice, Science and Policy.
Maggie Del Re '23, Major: Environmental Studies, Minors: Legal Studies, English, and Climate Justice, Science and Policy
Ellie Greene '25, Major: Biology, Minor: Climate Justice, Science and Policy
Ana Delfina Mejía Cerdas '25, Majors: Economics, International and Global Studies with a concentration in Global Health and Development, Minors: Latin American Studies, Social Justice and Social Policy
6:00 - 6:10 pm Greeting by Brandeis President Ron Liebowitz
6:10 - 6:40 pm Keynote by Bill McKibben
6:40 - 7:00 pm Q&A with Bill McKibben
Facilitators:
- Zev Carlyle '23, Major: Business, Minor: History
- Andie (Miranda) Sheinbaum '24, Major: Environmental Studies, Minors: Legal Studies and English
- Ana Delfina Mejía Cerdas '25, Majors: Economics, International and Global Studies with a concentration in Global Health and Development, Minors: Latin American Studies, Social Justice and Social Policy
CGES Donors
We would like to extend a sincere thank you to our supporters for their generosity in donating to CGES. As a part of our 25th anniversary, we would like to recognize donors who contributed to our celebration this year as well as helped us to continue our important work.
- Heidi Keller Moon
- Margaret E. Ward
- Margie & Tony Lee
- Gail Finney
- Luise F. Pusch and Joey Horsley
- Nicholas Alexander Brown
- Maike Byrd
- Dante Diwan
- Robin Feuer Miller
- Sandy Resnick & John Field
- We express our gratitude to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for supporting our work.