News /geography/ en Katherine Siegel Named in The Story Exchange's Saving Nature: 11 Women to Watch in Science /geography/2026/03/06/katherine-siegel-named-story-exchanges-saving-nature-11-women-watch-science <span>Katherine Siegel Named in The Story Exchange's Saving Nature: 11 Women to Watch in Science </span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-03-06T09:57:15-07:00" title="Friday, March 6, 2026 - 09:57">Fri, 03/06/2026 - 09:57</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/people/img_4614_small.jpg?h=8e20b99e&amp;itok=TLMqw4A1" width="1200" height="800" alt> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/106"> Feature-Faculty </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1437" hreflang="en">Katherine Siegel</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1352" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>Copied from The Story Exchange (https://thestoryexchange.org/11-women-to-watch-in-science-2026/) for archival purposes.</p><p><strong>Letter from the Editor</strong></p><p>We live in a time when words like “women,” “gender” and “diversity” are <a href="https://pen.org/banned-words-list/" rel="nofollow">banned</a> or restricted in federal research grants, particularly at agencies like the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.&nbsp;</p><p>Yet that has not stopped trailblazing women from searching for urgent, innovative, science-based solutions to the human-caused “<a href="https://350.org/science/" rel="nofollow">climate crisis</a>” (another phrase that’s been banned, along with “global warming” and “emissions”).&nbsp;</p><p>These scientists are working to safeguard the safety of our water, air and soil. They’re seeking the smartest ways we can transition to clean energy. They’re pushing their limits to stop deforestation and curb greenhouse gas emissions. And they’re doing it within a system that – on top of the banned words and the Trump administration’s <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history" rel="nofollow">rollback</a> of environmental protections — has long discriminated against them. Research <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history" rel="nofollow">confirms</a> that women in science are <a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/whats-behind-pay-gap-stem-jobs" rel="nofollow">paid</a> less, given fewer <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7432663/%23:~:text=Moreover,%2520an%2520almost%2520intractable%2520salary,STEMM%2520need%2520to%2520be%2520recognized." rel="nofollow">leadership</a> roles, and receive far less <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04966-w" rel="nofollow">recognition</a> than their male peers.&nbsp;</p><p>We can help with that last problem.&nbsp;</p><p>At The Story Exchange, we have long elevated women’s voices and achievements. Today, we are thrilled to spotlight these women scientists — <a href="https://thestoryexchange.org/know-a-trailblazing-woman-scientist-nominate-her-for-our-cutting-edge-women-in-science-list/" rel="nofollow">nominated by peers</a> — who are working tirelessly on our behalf. Their efforts alone will, of course, not be enough to save our natural world. We need thousands of committed scientists (and business and industries) like them. But their stories, dedication and perseverance can surely inspire others to try to do the same – and maybe just give the Earth a fighting chance.&nbsp;</p><p>Kathleen Alexander</p><p>Marianne Cowherd</p><p>Liz Dennett</p><p>Cynthia Gerlain-Safdi</p><p>Madeline Walker Miller</p><p>Rebecca Peters</p><p>Katherine Siegel</p><p>Ada Smith</p><p>Paige Stanley</p><p>Sarah Waickowski</p><p>Yagmur Yegin</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>"These women are using their hard-earned knowledge to protect our planet already ravaged by brutal storms, epic floods and intense wildfires." </div> <script> window.location.href = `https://thestoryexchange.org/11-women-to-watch-in-science-2026/`; </script> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:57:15 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3950 at /geography Illegality and the transformation of low-wage labor regimes in the context of rural gentrification /geography/2026/03/02/illegality-and-transformation-low-wage-labor-regimes-context-rural-gentrification <span>Illegality and the transformation of low-wage labor regimes in the context of rural gentrification</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-03-02T14:47:59-07:00" title="Monday, March 2, 2026 - 14:47">Mon, 03/02/2026 - 14:47</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2026-03/Steamboat%20Spring%2C%20CO.jpeg?h=71976bb4&amp;itok=QK6LSzTt" width="1200" height="800" alt="Steamboat Spring, CO"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/720"> Colloquia </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1352" hreflang="en">News</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1459" hreflang="en">colloquia</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2026-03/Illegality%20and%20the%20transformation%20of%20low-wage%20labor%20regimes%20in%20the%20context%20of%20rural%20gentrification_TV.png?itok=CgE8W76Y" width="750" height="422" alt="Illegality and the transformation of low-wage labor regimes in the context of rural gentrification"> </div> </div> <p><span><strong>Dr. Lise Nelson&nbsp;</strong></span><br><span>Professor&nbsp;</span><br><span>School of Geography &amp; Development&nbsp;</span><br><span>University of Arizona&nbsp;</span></p><p><span><strong>Abstract:&nbsp;</strong>Over the last three decades, domestic amenity or “lifestyle” migration has stimulated a process of rural gentrification across the United States, shifting landscapes of production to landscapes of consumption--from Jackson Hole, Wyoming to Highlands, North Carolina. My research investigates an under-appreciated dimension of rural gentrification: the recruitment of low-wage, mostly undocumented Latine immigrant workers essential to building and maintaining gentrifying landscapes and lifestyles. The talk at UC Boulder focuses on the emergence and consolidation of immigrant-based labor regimes in two case study communities between the late 1990s and late 2000s, Steamboat Springs, CO and Rabun County, GA, exploring qualitative data that illustrate how and why employers in gentrification-linked sectors recruited an unfamiliar labor force. I trace how, over time, employers transformed their business model to reach new levels of profitability predicated on access to racially marked, “illegal” workers. I also discuss how these racialized labor regimes shaped life and work for immigrant newcomers navigating rural landscapes of affluence.</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Over the last three decades, domestic amenity or “lifestyle” migration has stimulated a process of rural gentrification across the United States, shifting landscapes of production to landscapes of consumption--from Jackson Hole, Wyoming to Highlands, North Carolina. </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:47:59 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3949 at /geography Black Environmental Science: Nanny, Obeah, and the Mysterious Ecologies of Marronage /geography/2026/02/23/black-environmental-science-nanny-obeah-and-mysterious-ecologies-marronage <span>Black Environmental Science: Nanny, Obeah, and the Mysterious Ecologies of Marronage</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-02-23T10:37:19-07:00" title="Monday, February 23, 2026 - 10:37">Mon, 02/23/2026 - 10:37</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2026-01/_DSC6475_headshot.jpg?h=88b698b9&amp;itok=So_tRqtG" width="1200" height="800" alt="Dr. Alex A. Moulton"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/720"> Colloquia </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1352" hreflang="en">News</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1459" hreflang="en">colloquia</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2026-02/Black%20Environmental%20Science%20Nanny%2C%20Obeah%2C%20and%20the%20Mysterious%20Ecologies%20of%20Marronage_TV_Sign.png?itok=2P2bWPk3" width="750" height="422" alt="Black Environmental Science Nanny, Obeah, and the Mysterious Ecologies of Marronage"> </div> </div> <p><span><strong>Dr. Alex A. Moulton&nbsp;</strong></span><br><span>Assistant Professor&nbsp;</span><br><span>Geography and Environmental Science&nbsp;</span><br><span>Hunter College, CUNY&nbsp;</span><br><span>Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies&nbsp;</span></p><h5><span>Abstract:&nbsp;</span></h5><p><span>Within Afro-Jamaica religions, “science” is used as descriptor for traditional medicinal knowledge, ritual practices, and spirituality. Practitioners of Obeah, Myal, and other Afrocentric spiritual traditions, often identify themselves as “scientists”. We can read this as a challenge to the negation and denigration of Marron practices as evil or satanic. Through the analytical framework of Black Ecologies, this paper leans into a reading of the maroon claim to science not so much an appeal for Western science or the translation of Maroon practices into Western scientific rationality, but an assertion of a counter-science, an alternative Black science that is not less valid than Western science. Centering the famed Grande Nanny, chieftainess of the Windward Maroons, I consider how the mythic stories of marronage and maroon obeah disclose a Black ecological science concerned with the advancement of Black communal flourish. While Nanny is denounced by colonial historians as a practitioner of witchcraft, and unmoored from reality, I argue for attention to the concrete Black ecologies, messiness of social reproduction, and gendered geographies of mobility that placemaking evince. Taking seriously the British fears of the maroons, narrated as a ghostly foe haunting the project of conquest, the paper considers the present imperative of marronage in struggles for socioecological justice and agrarian sovereignty.</span></p><p><span><strong>Zoom Option:</strong> </span><a href="https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/92617865791" rel="nofollow"><span>https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/92617865791</span></a><span>&nbsp;</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:37:19 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3941 at /geography 2026 Geography Mapathon /geography/2026/02/10/2026-geography-mapathon <span>2026 Geography Mapathon</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-02-10T09:39:36-07:00" title="Tuesday, February 10, 2026 - 09:39">Tue, 02/10/2026 - 09:39</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2026-02/Mapathon%202026.png?h=bd59f1d3&amp;itok=yKdhYOAH" width="1200" height="800" alt="Mapathon 2026"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1523"> Mapathon </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1352" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2026-02/2026%20Mapathon.png?itok=BaQrv3fR" width="750" height="970" alt="2026 Mapathon"> </div> </div> <p><span>The Colorado Geographic Alliance (</span><a href="/geography/co-geographic-alliance" rel="nofollow"><span>COGA</span></a><span>) and 鶹ѰGeography are calling for maps that capture life affirming geographies. This year's theme is Cartographies of Hope.</span></p><p><span>"Cartographies of hope are doorways to rehearsing a liberatory world in the here and now."&nbsp; - </span><a href="/geography/isaac-rivera" rel="nofollow"><span>Dr. Isaac Rivera</span></a></p><h4>Submit Your Map</h4><p><a class="ucb-link-button ucb-link-button-blue ucb-link-button-default ucb-link-button-regular" href="https://forms.gle/so5VAVkxBUDxRLdE8" rel="nofollow"><span class="ucb-link-button-contents">鶹ѰBoulder Affiliate Submission</span></a></p><p><a class="ucb-link-button ucb-link-button-blue ucb-link-button-default ucb-link-button-regular" href="https://forms.gle/hXqnqVyEvTSt8cry7" rel="nofollow"><span class="ucb-link-button-contents">Colorado College and University Affiliate Submission</span></a></p><p><a class="ucb-link-button ucb-link-button-blue ucb-link-button-default ucb-link-button-regular" href="https://forms.gle/LgAisg41cz6Si1Gk8" rel="nofollow"><span class="ucb-link-button-contents">Colorado High School Affiliate Submission</span></a></p><p>Email <a href="mailto:coga@colorado.edu" rel="nofollow">coga@colorado.edu</a> with questions and technical difficulties.</p><h4>Mapathon Events on Friday, April 10th:</h4><ul><li>Open House<ul><li>Food and refreshments.</li><li>Gallery walk of map submissions and category winner.</li><li>People's choice voting.</li></ul></li><li><span><strong>Grand Opening&nbsp;</strong>of Dr. Isaac Rivera's Rita Martinez Spatial Justice lab for Life Affirming Geographies</span>.</li><li>Professor Sarah Elwood's Lecture 4:00-5:00pm.</li><li>People’s Choice Award Winner announced at 5:30pm.</li></ul><h4><span>Frequently Asked Questions</span></h4><div><span><strong>What maps are accepted?</strong></span></div><p dir="ltr"><span>Conventional, creative, drawn, digital, and abstract representations of geographic spaces or places are all acceptable. See this link for examples. Both digital and analog maps are accepted. For analog or drawn maps, please take a picture of your map and submit the picture to the online submission portal.</span></p><div><span><strong>What will happen after I submit my map?</strong></span></div><p dir="ltr"><span>At the Open House map gallery before the Professor Sarah Elwood's Lecture on April 10th, attendees can vote on their favorite Map (People’s Choice Award). Two winners (Best Overall Map and People's Choice Map).</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>Categories:</span></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>Grand Prize: Best Overall Map</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>People’s Choice: &nbsp;Voted on by attendees</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>Thematic Awards:</span></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>Life Affirming Geographies</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>Geographies of Resistance and Repair</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>Geographies of Care</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>Geographies of Sustainability and Environmental Justice</span></p></li></ul></li></ul><div><span><strong>How will my map be judged?</strong></span></div><p dir="ltr"><span>Once you submit your map it will be reviewed by a panel of 鶹ѰGeography Faculty and Graduate Students based on the following criteria:</span></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Content</p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Evident engagement with the larger "Cartographies of Hope” theme.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Evident engagement with the theme the map is submitted under (i.e. life affirming, resistance &amp; repair, care, sustainability &amp; Environmental Justice).</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Readability/educational value (i.e. can the content of the map be followed and does it provide an interesting or important lens of the topic it addresses?).</p></li></ul></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Design and Style</p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Title (i.e. is the title engaging and clearly connected with the content of the map?).</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Color balance (i.e., are the colors engaging but not overbearing? Do they work well with each other?).</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Layout (i.e., is the layout balanced, easy to follow, and engaging?).</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Images/visuals (i.e., are they engaging? Are they balanced? Do they match the content?).</p></li></ul></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Symbology</p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>(i.e. does the content match the representation?).</span></p></li></ul></li></ul><div><span><strong>I'm not a 鶹ѰBoulder Student, can I still submit?</strong></span></div><p dir="ltr"><span>Yes! Those outside of 鶹ѰBoulder are welcome to submit to the Mapathon and will be evaluated with their academic background in mind.&nbsp; For example, if you are a K-12 Educator, we encourage you to submit your students' maps and they will not be judged against PhD-level submissions.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span><strong>What did last year's maps look like?</strong></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>See our winners and other submissions </span><a href="/geography/2025/03/19/2025-mapathon-winners" rel="nofollow"><span>here</span></a><span>.</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:39:36 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3944 at /geography Colorado Geographies Panel /geography/2026/02/09/colorado-geographies-panel <span>Colorado Geographies Panel</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-02-09T07:19:22-07:00" title="Monday, February 9, 2026 - 07:19">Mon, 02/09/2026 - 07:19</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2026-02/AdobeStock_260485930.jpeg?h=cb97478a&amp;itok=zPDRY_Dl" width="1200" height="800" alt="colorado map"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/720"> Colloquia </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1522"> Colorado Geographies Panel </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1352" hreflang="en">News</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1459" hreflang="en">colloquia</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2026-02/Colorado%20Geographies%20Panel.png?itok=N33BvA_-" width="750" height="422" alt="Colorado Geographies Panel"> </div> </div> <p><span><strong>Sid Whiting Jr (Sicinagu Lakota)&nbsp;</strong></span><br><span>Indigenous Youth Educator&nbsp;</span><br><span>Cultural Engagement Coordinator&nbsp;</span></p><p><span><strong>Jeanette Vizguerra&nbsp;</strong></span><br><span>Community Organizer&nbsp;</span><br><span>Founder of Sanctuary For All&nbsp;</span></p><p><span><strong>Kalyn Rose Heffernan&nbsp;</strong></span><br><span>Education Freedom Fighter&nbsp;</span><br><span>Lead Singer of Wheelchair Sports Camp&nbsp;</span></p><p><span>In the geographic tradition of Clyde Woods, this panel underscores the knowledge holders of Colorado, making visible the everyday ways in which our speakers transform places, landscapes, and futures into spaces of life affirming possibility. This panel will discuss Native ways of knowing Colorado, accountable relations with Native nations and peoples; immigrant dignity and practices of relational liberation; disability justice and the transformation of the built environment to affirm all life. The seeds for a liberatory world are already here.</span></p><p><span>This panel will be held in the <strong>Map Libraries&nbsp;</strong>at CU-Boulder. This is located in the basement level of the Earth and Sciences building.</span></p><h3><span>Panelist Bios:</span></h3><h5><span><strong>Sid Whiting Jr</strong></span></h5><p><span>Mr. Sid Whiting is Sicangu Lakota from the Rosebud Sioux reservation in south central South Dakota. He has lived in Denver most of his life as a part of the Native American community. He began working in his community at a young age. Being the president of the metro Indian youth group at 16 years of age, his family has been a part of creating many Native American organizations in the Denver area. Sid has been a part of the Denver March Pow wow and TallBull Memorial Grounds since their inception in the mid 70's. His involvement in community has been with youth primarily. Such as a Board member for Casa Milagro Youth Services. Sid's involvement with youth has seen him as a teacher for the now defunct American Indian Academy of Denver. But currently he is a Cultural 鶹Ѱ Presenter for multiple school districts in the metro area. Doing presentations such as, Indigenous Drum Math, Tipi Calculus, Eagle Feather Physics, and Bison Science using Native objects. He also works for Create ayA, which is a Cultural arts promotional organization for Native Artists that puts on Denver's only Native American Comic Con and Futurism's event. As a Cultural Engagement Coordinator, Sid sits on the Denver Art Museum's Indigenous Council and the Native American Council at the University of Denver. He currently has objects at The Denver Art Museum Native American Gallery and a Gallery of objects at the Creative Nations Gallery in the Dairy Arts Complex in Boulder. Sid is currently working on the Living Land Project at Denver's City Park, transforming a portion of the park into a Native American inspired vision. This vision includes a Short Grass Prairie, a Medicinal Medicine Garden, and an Amphitheater meeting place for large events. Sid's work with the city of Denver has him working with others to build a Native American Cultural Embassy, a 20 million dollar project that was passed in the Vibrant Denver Bond last November. Sid has many other projects he is working on, including the Breathing Healing Bus, and the Sundance Film Festival in Boulder just to mention a few.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><h5><span><strong>Jeanette Vizguerra</strong></span></h5><p><span>Jeanette Vizguerra originally from Mexico City came to the USA in 1997 for safety, as her husband suffered three express kidnappings in Mexico City. Like many immigrants, even though she has a degree in Psychology was unable to practice her profession here. Her first job was as a janitor. There she immediately began her activism for labor rights, which led the SIEU Local 105 union to invite her to work directly with them just three months after arriving in the USA. They saw her potential to organize, and from then on, her life has been dedicated to serving Colorado's most vulnerable communities. She is a champion of labor, civil, and human rights, and founder of immigrant rights in Colorado, her work is not only local but also national. She is the founder of the sanctuary movement in Colorado and independent organizations such as Sanctuary for All and Abolish ICE Denver. She supports and participates in all movements that affect her community. As someone impacted by the immigration system, she has been detained four times in ICE detention centers and twice sought sanctuary refuge. Her resilience led Time magazine to name her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. She sought sanctuary to resist deportation proceedings during the Trump administration, as her case became known worldwide. She has not stopped working for her community. For 30 years even while detained, she helped organize to liberate others within the detention center. She is the recipient of many civil rights awards and continues her work in the community.</span></p><h5><span><strong>Kalyn Rose Heffernan</strong></span></h5><p><span><strong>Kalyn&nbsp;</strong>is the wheelchair-using, rap heavy, many arts, educating freedom fighter. Kalyn, who fronts the internationally acclaimed band Wheelchair Sports Camp has more recently stretched into theatre, performance art, politics, permanent installations, museum takeovers, prison tours, film and who knows what’s next. She infamously led Denver's first disabled, queer, artist campaign for the mayor seat 2019. Well known for fighting for access, human rights, and calling out those in power who protect capital interests over the future - Kalyn is well known for raising hell in a very loud and distinct high pitched sense of humor.</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>In the geographic tradition of Clyde Woods, this panel underscores the knowledge holders of Colorado, making visible the everyday ways in which our speakers transform places, landscapes, and futures into spaces of life affirming possibility. This panel will discuss Native ways of knowing Colorado, accountable relations with Native nations and peoples; immigrant dignity and practices of relational liberation; disability justice and the transformation of the built environment to affirm all life. The seeds for a liberatory world are already here.</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:19:22 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3943 at /geography Bodies as Infrastructure: Gender, Water, and situated infrastructural violence in North Indian Cities /geography/2026/02/02/bodies-infrastructure-gender-water-and-situated-infrastructural-violence-north-indian <span>Bodies as Infrastructure: Gender, Water, and situated infrastructural violence in North Indian Cities</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-02-02T07:14:38-07:00" title="Monday, February 2, 2026 - 07:14">Mon, 02/02/2026 - 07:14</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2026-01/bodies%20as%20infra%20image-1.JPG?h=19f14c2c&amp;itok=6EollQMS" width="1200" height="800" alt="Bodies as Infrastructure"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/720"> Colloquia </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1352" hreflang="en">News</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1459" hreflang="en">colloquia</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2026-01/Bodies%20as%20Infrastructure%20Gender%2C%20Water%2C%20and%20situated%20infrastructural%20violence%20in%20North%20Indian%20Cities%20TV.png?itok=eZaOg8RQ" width="750" height="422" alt="Bodies as Infrastructure Gender, Water, and situated infrastructural violence in North Indian Cities"> </div> </div> <p><span><strong>Yaffa Truelove</strong></span><br><span>Associate Professor</span><br><span>Department of Geography</span><br><span>University of Colorado at Boulder</span><br><a href="mailto:truelove@colorado.edu" rel="nofollow"><span>truelove@colorado.edu</span></a></p><h5><span><strong>Abstract</strong></span></h5><p><span>Over the last decade, a growing number of North Indian cities have been declared “waterless,” referring to the temporary stoppage of piped water delivery for days or weeks on end. While receiving widespread media attention for these moments of water crisis – with newspapers often showing images of middle-class residents queuing in long lines at off-grid water sources – urban “waterlessness” is an everyday reality for working class residents who altogether lack access to the centralized network. These residents piece together fragmented and off-grid infrastructures as a normative practice, enabling water to flow to homes and across neighborhoods, maintaining city life.&nbsp;Through conceptualizing bodies as part of infrastructure, this research traces the ways the social and material work of the body helps to build, develop, and maintain cities and their water networks in North India. Bringing a feminist political ecology lens to infrastructure studies, I specifically show how gendered/casted/classed bodies act as part of urban infrastructure through the quotidian practices and labor of finding and circulating water to households in Delhi, Mohali, and Shimla. By examining when and how bodies become “internalized” as part of infrastructural networks, this research aims to render visible often overlooked dimensions of infrastructure and our analytic view of it. I argue that conceptualizing the body as infrastructure helps make visible 1) the embodied labor, maintenance and care work that subsidizes and enables infrastructural assemblages and networks, 2) the socio-political processes and forces that produce the necessity for particular gendered /casted/racialized/classed bodies to act as infrastructure in the first place, and 3) situated forms of infrastructural violence that emerge from everyday practices that enable water’s circulation in cities.&nbsp;</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Over the last decade, a growing number of North Indian cities have been declared “waterless,” referring to the temporary stoppage of piped water delivery for days or weeks on end...</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:14:38 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3940 at /geography An Indigenous Geopoetics for the Apocalypse /geography/2026/01/26/indigenous-geopoetics-apocalypse <span>An Indigenous Geopoetics for the Apocalypse</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-01-26T15:38:04-07:00" title="Monday, January 26, 2026 - 15:38">Mon, 01/26/2026 - 15:38</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2026-01/site_1513_0001-1000-750-20160616155229.jpg?h=707772c7&amp;itok=unB9uEZd" width="1200" height="800" alt="An Indigenous Geopoetics for the Apocalypse"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/720"> Colloquia </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1459" hreflang="en">colloquia</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2026-01/An%20Indigenous%20Geopoetics%20for%20the%20Apocalypse.png?itok=7X9nBHK7" width="750" height="422" alt="An Indigenous Geopoetics for the Apocalypse"> </div> </div> <p><span><strong>Dr. Mabel D. Gergan&nbsp;</strong></span><br><span>Assistant Professor&nbsp;</span><br><span>Department of Asian Studies&nbsp;</span><br><span>Vanderbilt University&nbsp;</span></p><h5><strong>Abstract:</strong></h5><p><span>Somewhere deep in the Dzongu valley, in the shadow of Mt. Kanchendzonga, lies a secret pathway to Mayal Kyong – a hidden paradise of abundance, home to seven immortal couples revered as ancestors by the Lepchas (Mutanchi Rongkup Rumkup). Mayal Kyong is one though perhaps the most significant of several hidden places believed to exist in Dzongu, where sacred scriptures, relics, religious teachings, and even precious jewels are said to lie concealed in rocky caves, crags, and waterfalls. These treasures are believed to reveal themselves only in moments of great need or at the end of the mortal world. One such sacred treasure is a pot filled to the brim with grains and seeds, meant to help the Lepcha people rebuild in the event of an apocalypse.</span></p><p><span>Since 2006, Dzongu has been the site of a vibrant anti-dam movement led by the Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT), which successfully pressured the state to withdraw four proposed dams on the River Teesta in Sikkim, India. Today, however, much of the Teesta has been dammed, and only a few free-flowing stretches remain. Hydropower development has also intensified the impacts of cyclical disasters, the most devastating of which include the 6.9 magnitude earthquake in 2011 and the 2023 Glacial Lake Outburst Flood. Despite significant pressure and criticism, ACT members continue to nurture the hope that the Teesta will remain a free-flowing river. Their activism is nourished and sustained by their belief in the power and protection of Sikkim's sacred landscapes. It is this act of nurturing hope, and the beliefs and practices that sustain it, that inform my analysis here.</span></p><p><span>In Lepcha oral histories and prophecies, the apocalypse much like in its original Greek meaning signals not only a time of disaster and doom but also a moment of sacred revelation. In conversation with Indigenous Himalayan and critical geographic theorizations of geopoetics, sacred landscapes, and prophecy, I understand these articulations as an Indigenous geopoetics: a praxis and philosophy grounded in the particularity of place, one that reads the earth and its signs in ways that maintain hope in times of crisis and uncertainty.</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Somewhere deep in the Dzongu valley, in the shadow of Mt. Kanchendzonga, lies a secret pathway to Mayal Kyong – a hidden paradise of abundance, home to seven immortal couples revered as ancestors by the Lepchas (Mutanchi Rongkup Rumkup)...</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:38:04 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3939 at /geography Professor Emily Yeh: SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education welcomes 13 faculty fellows /geography/2026/01/23/professor-emily-yeh-spike-center-sustainability-education-welcomes-13-faculty-fellows <span>Professor Emily Yeh: SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education welcomes 13 faculty fellows</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-01-23T13:40:13-07:00" title="Friday, January 23, 2026 - 13:40">Fri, 01/23/2026 - 13:40</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-image/emily_yeh_0.jpg?h=b3376301&amp;itok=vZHe6rgG" width="1200" height="800" alt="Emily Yeh"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/106"> Feature-Faculty </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><div><div><div><em><strong>Copied from 鶹ѰBoulder Today online publication on 1/23/2026 for archival purposes.</strong></em></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span>1/22/2026</span></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p dir="ltr"><span>The SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education at 鶹ѰBoulder has selected 13 faculty members as its inaugural SPIKE Faculty Fellows, launching a new initiative designed to strengthen and expand sustainability education across campus.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>The SPIKE Faculty Fellows will play a central role in advancing sustainability-focused teaching and praxis at 鶹ѰBoulder. Together, they will build a cross-campus network of faculty committed to integrating sustainability into curriculum and applied learning, while providing critical faculty perspective to broader university initiatives connected to sustainability education.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>During the program’s first six months—starting in January 2026—the fellows will focus on two primary objectives: developing and delivering an annual Sustainability Across the Curriculum training for 鶹ѰBoulder faculty, beginning each May, and offering faculty voice and input into campuswide visions and initiatives that intersect with sustainability education.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>In spring 2026, fellows on academic-year appointments will concentrate on teaching strategies responsive to the current moment, as well as foundational sustainability content. The theme for the spring 2026 cohort will be environmental and climate justice.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr"><span>Advancing transformational learning</span></h2><p dir="ltr"><span>In coordination with administrators, staff, students and faculty colleagues across 鶹ѰBoulder, the inaugural class of SPIKE Faculty Fellows will work toward a range of outcomes that benefit both the Buckley Center and the campus community. These include:</span></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><span>Co-creating and coordinating a campuswide agenda for transformational learning related to sustainability (distinct from formal curriculum development, which will be supported through a separate ambassadors program)</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Informing and illuminating best practices in sustainability education to guide campuswide efforts and reinforce 鶹ѰBoulder’s role as an international leader</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Sharing experiences and challenges encountered in sustainability education and praxis</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Advocating for innovative initiatives that energize and support pathways toward more sustainable futures</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Cultivating networks of faculty support across campus, including serving as liaisons to centers and institutes</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Collectively preparing and delivering a faculty training on sustainability education</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Identifying, assessing and curating sustainability education materials for teaching and learning</span></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div><p dir="ltr"><span>Through these efforts, the SPIKE Faculty Fellows program aims to deepen collaboration, elevate faculty leadership and embed sustainability more fully into the educational experience at 鶹ѰBoulder.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr"><span>Spring 2026 SPIKE Faculty Fellows</span></h2><p dir="ltr"><span>The inaugural cohort of faculty fellows includes:</span></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><span>Thomas Andrews, Professor, History and Social Science</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Karen Bailey, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Natural Science</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Dave Ciplet, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Natural Science</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Azza Kamal, Associate Teaching Professor, Environmental Design and Communication</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Gregor Macgregor, Assistant Teaching Professor, Environmental Studies and Natural Science</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Cresten Mansfeldt, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>James C. Rattling Leaf, Sr., Geography, Natural Science and CIRES</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Esther Rolf, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Jonathan Skinner-Thompson, Associate Professor, Colorado Law</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Seema Sohi, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies and Social Science</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Katharine N. Suding, Distinguished Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Natural Science</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Meghan Van Portfliet, Assistant Teaching Professor, Leeds School of Business</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Steven Vanderheiden, Professor, Political Science and Social Science</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Emily Yeh, Professor, Geography and Natural Science</span></li></ul><p dir="ltr"><span>Together, these faculty leaders represent a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, underscoring the SPIKE Center’s commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and inclusive approaches to sustainability education at 鶹ѰBoulder.</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>The SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education at 鶹ѰBoulder has selected 13 faculty members as its inaugural SPIKE Faculty Fellows, launching a new initiative designed to strengthen and expand sustainability education across campus.</div> <script> window.location.href = `/today/2026/01/22/spike-center-sustainability-education-welcomes-13-faculty-fellows`; </script> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:40:13 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3938 at /geography A Mountain Debate on Climate/Relational Change: Revitalizing the Voice of Indigenous Territorial Sovereigns in Tibetan Contemporary Literature /geography/2026/01/20/mountain-debate-climaterelational-change-revitalizing-voice-indigenous-territorial <span>A Mountain Debate on Climate/Relational Change: Revitalizing the Voice of Indigenous Territorial Sovereigns in Tibetan Contemporary Literature </span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-01-20T15:11:35-07:00" title="Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 15:11">Tue, 01/20/2026 - 15:11</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2026-01/Tashi%20Dekyid%20Monet_Colloquium_Image.jpg?h=a5eb5da0&amp;itok=DZQHmQr5" width="1200" height="800" alt="Tashi Dekyid Monet_Colloquium_Image"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/720"> Colloquia </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1459" hreflang="en">colloquia</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2026-01/A%20Mountain%20Debate%20on%20ClimateRelational%20Change%20TV%20Poster.jpg?itok=Ad6SJpqB" width="750" height="422" alt="A Mountain Debate on Climate Relational Change"> </div> </div> <p><strong>Dr. </strong><span><strong>Tashi Dekyid Monet&nbsp;</strong></span><br><span>Post-doctoral Scholar&nbsp;</span><br><span>Modern Tibetan Studies&nbsp;</span><br><span>Weatherhead East Asian Institute</span><br><span>Columbia University&nbsp;</span></p><p><span><strong>Abstract:</strong></span></p><p><span>What do Tibetan mountains say about the recent climate change that is driven by and intensifies complex changes and disruptions to multiple relationships on the Tibetan Plateau?&nbsp; How do the mountains communicate their emotions, thoughts, pains, and resolutions? How can we listen, observe, know, and understand the mountains’ perspectives? In this paper, I explore how two Tibetan contemporary short stories provide creative and generative spaces to reflect on these questions. They are “Snow” (1999) by Pema Tseten and “The Conference of Lhanyen Mountains” (2020) by Joné Yumtsering. These questions emerge from Tibetan cosmologies and ontologies of the environment, personhood, life, and the plateau itself. Understanding the thoughts, moods, and visions of the mountains—known to Tibetans as Territorial Sovereigns (</span><em><span>Zhidak</span></em><span>&nbsp;</span><span lang="BO">གཞི་བདག</span><span>; also rendered as mountain gods in English) —has been important for Tibetan communities in many ways, ranging o</span></p><p><span>ver cultural practice, agricultural production, and political governance. Territorial Sovereigns are both physical mountains and metaphysical figures who rule and protect specific places that constitute the Tibetan Plateau. I also engage the history of, and poetic evocations to, Mountain Sovereigns, including lived experiences of mountain ceremonies in my community. Similar to conclusions drawn by Indigenous climate studies (Whyte 2021; Cane 2025), these Tibetan stories illustrate how the “unnatural” events of natural disasters are signs of, and results from, disruptions in their human and more-than-human relationships. I argue that these stories offer a space for the emergence of fuller stories of Tibetan mountains and place-based relationships, including their entanglements with multiple changes today. They are also spaces where we can reflect on the possibilities and challenges of understanding places in their fuller being and senses than the often disembodied, objectified, extracted, and fragmented manners in which they are dealt with in research.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><p><span><strong>Speaker Bio:</strong></span></p><p><span>Tashi Dekyid Monet&nbsp;(</span><span lang="BO">མོ་ངེ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་སྐྱིད།)</span><span>&nbsp;is a Tibetan scholar, writer, and translator whose academic and literary work explores Indigenous Land-based traditions, multispecies care, and the intersections of literature, spirituality, peoplehood, and the environment. Born and raised in Minyak Rabgang, one of the Six Mountain Ranges of eastern Tibet, she earned her BA in Tibetan Literature from Minzu University of China. She received her Ph.D. in Education from the University of Virginia (2024), where her research connects Tibetan literary and oral traditions of Land, Buddhist sacred geography, Indigenous storytelling, popular culture—art, music, literature and film—with global conversations on decolonial methodologies, critical Indigenous education, human geography, environmental humanities, and multispecies justice.</span></p><p><span>Tashi Dekyid is a postdoctoral scholar in the Modern Tibetan Studies program at Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, where she co-leads a collaborative Indigenous-led the project&nbsp;on </span><em><span>“Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas.”</span></em><span> Her publications includes</span><em><span>&nbsp;“Translating the Tibetan Lifeworld: An Ontological Bridge or Erasure”</span></em><span>&nbsp;(Yeshe), a co-edited trilingual anthology&nbsp;</span><em><span>Hope that Burns, Friendship that Heals: An Anthology by Tibetan Women Writers</span></em><span>, and</span><em><span>&nbsp;“Rejoicing in Reciprocity”</span></em><span>&nbsp;(The Brooklyn Rail), She has authored three Tibetan-language children’s books—</span><em><span>Ten Precious Yaks</span></em><span>,&nbsp;</span><em><span>Snow Friend</span></em><span>, and&nbsp;</span><em><span>Where Are You?</span></em><span>—and translated works by Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Margaret Atwood, and others into Tibetan. She co-organized the 2022 international Symposium of Tibetan Women Writers at University of Virginia.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span><strong>Zoom Option:</strong> </span><a href="https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/91058919425" rel="nofollow"><span>https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/91058919425</span></a><span>&nbsp;</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>What do Tibetan mountains say about the recent climate change that is driven by and intensifies complex changes and disruptions to multiple relationships on the Tibetan Plateau? How do the mountains communicate their emotions, thoughts, pains, and resolutions? 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