The IRT is hosting a series of webinars via Zoom. An Outlook invitation will be sent with login information at least three days prior to the event. If you have questions contact Sara Glade (sara.glade@colorado.edu).
Spring 2022
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Monday, February 21, 9-10 a.m.: Dr. Kyri Baker, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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“An Equitable Transition to a Sustainable Energy Future”
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Monday, April 4, 9-10 a.m.: Dr. Santina Contreras, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
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Monday, April 11, 9-10 a.m.: Dr. Idowu (Jola) Ajibade, Assistant Professor, Portland State University
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"The Resilience Fix to Climate Disasters: Recursive and Contested Relations with Equity and Justice-Based Transformations in the Global South"
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Previous Seminars
Fall 2021
- October 22, 3-4 p.m.: Dr. J. Carlee Purdum, Research Assistant Professor for the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University
- "Refusal to Mitigate: Extreme Temperatures and COVID19 in Texas Prisons"
- November 5, 3-4 p.m.: Dr. Junia Howell, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago
- "Is There a Better Way?: Reimagining Disaster Mitigation and Response Programs"
- November 12, 9-10 a.m.: Dr. Neelke Doorn, Distinguished Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor ‘Ethics of Water Engineering’ at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- "Ethics and resilience: Opportunities and challenges for inserting ethics considerations in resilience approaches."
Spring 2021
- March 12, 3-4 p.m.: Dr. Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz, Professor and Director of Environmental Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder
- “Assessing the Impact of Wildfires on Water Quality and Production of Potable Water”
- March 19, 3-4 p.m.: Alex Diaz, Crisis Response and Humanitarian Aid lead at Google.org
- "Proactive Disaster Relief"
- April 2, 3-4 p.m.: Dr. Sara Meerow, assistant professor at Arizona State University and Global Institute of Sustainability
- "Bouncing Forward? Building a Transformative Urban Resilience Agenda"
- April 9, 4-5 p.m.: Dr. Lori Peek, professor of sociology and Director of the Natural Hazards Center at CU Boulder
- “Stories from the Field: An Ethical Toolkit for Long-Term Disaster Research”
- April 16, 4-5 p.m.: Dr. Jota Samper, assistant professor of Environmental Design at CU Boulder
- "How informal settlements (slums) will reshape the world, learnings from the Atlas of Informality"
- April 23, 4-5 p.m.: Dr. Loïc Le Dé, senior lecturer at Auckland University of Technology
- “Measuring resilience: whose resilience, by whom and for whom? Initial reflections on people-centred resilience indicators developed in New Zealand”