In the past year, the world witnessed devastating fire seasons in Australia and the U.S. West, an Atlantic hurricane season with a record thirty storms, and a global pandemic. In each of these cases, among the losses of many, marginalized communities have borne the brunt of cascading environmental catastrophes, experiencing loss of lands and significant costs to community health and wellness. This panel, composed of leading Black and Indigenous archaeologists and artists, considers what it means to confront the challenges of a changing climate alongside the legacies of environmental racism. How does our understanding of past and present ecologies allow us to imagine new ethics of care and responsibility for all of our relations? And what shared obligations do such ethics create for archaeological practice?

This webinar is organized by the Society of Black Archaeologists and the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and sponsored by the The U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. The event is free and open to the public.

March 3, 4-6 EDT
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HQ3DpjA-SF-GIsr4-L4Npg