This in-person, interdisciplinary symposium probes the scope and scale of present-day Caribbean social emergencies brought about by climate colonialism and centuries of racial capitalism. Panelists assess the opportunities for regional transformation, transnational accountability, and reparative ways of knowing and dwelling amid crisis. They focus on what climate repair looks like today -- the emerging vital alignments that seek to interrupt capitalist systems of death and environmental destruction.

Convened by Dr. Saudi Garcia (Anthropology, The New School) and Dr. Kris Manjapra (History, Tufts University, Heilbroner Center Fellow), the event is free and open to the public.

It is hosted by the Robert L. Heibroner Center for Capitalism Studies and co-sponsored by The New School for Social Research, The Department of Sociology and the Department of Historical Studies; Eugene Lang College, Global Studies; Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence, The New School.

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Panelists

Distinguished Keynote Speaker Erna Brodber, Literary Laureate, Sociologist, and Community Organizer, Woodside, Jamaica

Veronica Agard, Ancestors in Training Project

Tao Leigh Goffe, Cultural Theorist, Cornell University

Catherine John, Cultural Theorist, University of Rhode Island

Michael Gomez, Historian, New York University

Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Anthropologist and Activist, LaGuardia Community College

Sienna Merope-Synge, Co-Director, Global Justice Clinic Caribbean Climate Justice Initiative

Amelia Moore, Sociocultural Anthropologist, University of Rhode Island

Boumba Nixon, Human Rights Activist, Haiti Mining Justice Collective

Kevon Rhiney, Geographer, Rutgers University

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