F. Russell Cole Distinguished Lecture in Environmental Studies Livestream
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet featuring Sarah Jaquette Ray, professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Cal Poly Humboldt
Sarah Jaquette Ray works at the intersection of social justice and climate emotions, particularly among youth activists and in higher education.
Ray is author of two books, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture (Arizona, 2013), on the emotion of disgust in environmentalism and its implications for social justice, and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (California, 2020), an existential toolkit for the climate generation.
In addition to serving on the board for the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center, Ray is on the scientific advisory board for the Climate Mental Health Network and speaks and publishes widely on the role of emotions in climate advocacy.
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 27
Time: 7–8 p.m. Eastern
Where: Zoom
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