In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world’s imagination. Using the never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, How To Change The World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement. Featuring music from Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Brigitte Bardot, Country Joe Mcdonald & The Fish and the Can.
A reception with light refreshments will be held at 6:30PM. The screening will begin at 7pm, to be followed by a brief conversation and Q&A with two guests, David Lyon, a scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund Oil & Gas team, working on ground-breaking studies to quantify methane emissions from the natural gas value chain, and Dave Cortez, the Central Texas Beyond Coal Organizer with the Sierra Club and named 2015 Best Environmental Activist by the Austin Chronicle.
Read the blog post written by Virginia Palacios at the Environmental Defense Fund about the need to diversify the environmental movement. Additional posts relating to our Controversy & Conversation film series can be found here.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 APL Cepeda Branch 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin, TX 78702 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Free and open to the public. Please RSVP.
On April 18th at 7PM at the Cepeda Branch of the Austin Public Library, the Humanities Institute will hold its third meeting of our new public reading group on the theme of 'Democracy and Community Action,' co-sponsored by the Austin Public Library. Please join us at this meeting to discuss the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and readings on how it is called upon in today's political discourse.
The reading group's resources, meeting agendas, and discussion boards can be found on our Wiki. We encourage you to post your suggestions for readings and special guests on the Wiki, or to email your suggestions to our Program Coordinator Clare Callahan at ccallahan@utexas.edu.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Friday April 21, 2017 Various locations
Free and open to the public.
Dr. Rafael Campo, a poet and essayist who teaches and practices internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will be coming to Austin for a series of events starting April 20th. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Campo currently resides in Boston, where his medical practice serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people, and people with HIV infection. Dr. Campo is also on the faculty of Lesley University's Creative Writing MFA Program, and he is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Poetry Series award, and a Lambda Literary Award for his poetry.
The following events, sponsored by the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies with support from the Humanities Institute through the Kidd Centennial Lectureship, will be free and open to the public.
A report released in 2014 by an organization called Green 2.0 points out that gender diversity in “big green groups” is at parity, but people of color are poorly represented. This underrepresentation of people of color in big green groups is a problem because black and brown communities are often disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution. One in two Latinos in the United States lives in a county with some of the worst air pollution in the country. Poor air quality has fatal consequences to our families’ health. Latino children are twice as likely to die of asthma compared to non-Latino whites. If big green groups are going to stop pollution in the most vulnerable communities, then it is important that we look like the people we are serving and that we come from the same communities.
Dr. Gone led the Faculty Fellows Seminar in Health, Well-Being, Healing on March 23 in a discussion about psychology, indigenous healing practices and clinical therapy practices, and epistemology of healing. Dr. Gone’s body of work, as evidenced in the articles that he provided to the seminar, argues that the practices of traditional professional psychotherapy or clinical psychology may be less effective than and at times antagonistic to indigenous practices for fostering the well-being of indigenous communities. Indeed, underlying the practices of professional psychotherapy and clinical psychology is a violent history of colonization to which Dr. Gone argues practitioners must be sensitive when considering approaches to indigenous healing.
European colonization in the Americas and colonization’s contemporary manifestation has imperiled, and continues to imperil, Native American cultural practices. Not only have Native Americans suffered large numbers of casualties in past wars, but government treaties have also created today’s poverty-stricken reservations. Poverty in Native American communities has fostered an epidemic of mental illness, including suicide and addiction.
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