​Friday, April 11, 12:20pm: Clark 700 or via zoom:

Colloquium on Climate- and Community- Engaged Science 

Scientists in psychology and human development led a discussion that showcased ongoing engagement efforts and provided paths forward for anyone who wishes to engage.

Co-organized by Cornell on Fire Faculty Fellow Shimon Edelman at a time when fascism and climate catastrophe require finding our political voice "as well as a community where we can live rather than visit​ and preach​."

Panelists included Marlen Gonzalez, Khena Swallow, Nora Prior, Anthony Burrow, Laura Niemi, Elizabeth Riley, and Shimon Edelman.

Panelists presented diverse lines of work that challenge the traditional notion — popular among mainstream​ academics and the administrators who rule over​ them — ​that community engagement​ ​is​ a distraction, if not an actual threat​ to the academy's alleged apoliticism. Can the academy pretend to​ be free of worldly trammels while working to reproduce the structure of the governing elites​, and​ pretend​ to be apolitical while reinforcing the politics of class privilege and power​?

#​Don'tLookAway #ScienceNotSilence