Resilience as Resistance aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, community leaders, and agency officials from across disciplines and geographic locations to share and learn in a collaborative, communicative environment.
- Keynote: March 19, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
- Sessions: March 20, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
We recognize the inseparability of our climate and social crises and ask how environmental justice concerns might be re-envisioned through a new resilience framework. This new framework must be top/UP, eliminating institutional silos and power boundaries while recognizing new measurements of value and alternative forms of building and strengthening capacity. This future is rooted in practical optimism; it may be buoyed by technological advances, but it is made durable by the tight weave of human relationships.
This symposium will explore resilience as a form of resistance – a right, a labor, a memory, a reclamation, an act of design. We invite you to explore this emerging form of 21st-century resilience with us and imagine the kinds of worlds we might build together on the fortitude of its fabric.
This event is open to the entire WashU community and the public.