Climate Calling Conference 2022

2022 Keynote Address

Elizabeth Rush presented by the Malibu Library Speaker Series with Pepperdine University

Watch the Keynote Address

What might we learn from the people living on climate change’s frontlines about the future that we share? In this talk, Elizabeth Rush will speak about a small community on the eastern shore of Staten Island–– a place that Sandy both undid and remade from the ground up––investigating the storm's aftermath and the radical decision residents made to retreat from rising seas in an attempt to overcome their shared vulnerability. She will address whose voices have been traditionally left out of environmental discourse and how we might make this conversation more whole moving forward.

Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Gaurdian, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard and the New Republic, among others. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Howard Foundation Fellowship, awarded by Brown University; the Society for Environmental Journalism Grant; the Metcalf Institute Climate Change Adaptation Fellowship; and the Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University, and teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.

Student Research Presentations

Friday, April 8, from 2 pm to 4 pm
Biggers Family Courtyard (next to Elkins Auditorium)

Student researchers will present their research topics during an academic poster session. Their presentations are part of a spring semester course that includes a climate change component.

Supercollider

Presented by Art and Art History and Art and Sustainability 

Friday, April 8, 12 pm 
Surfboard Room

Supercollider is the Mothership (HQ) for sci+art+tech exhibitions in LA and beyond. They seek to drive persistent conversation about the future of Earth through immersive science+art experiences. They have bi-monthly exhibitions and extend their curations via Satellites to local and (inter)national places.

This is a space where art, science, and tech collide to inspire social and environmental responsibility.

Supercollider brings together leading artists, scientists, and the public to celebrate the future and reframe the challenges facing our world. In this process, they build accountability networks and creative connection across disciplines and locations to spark collective perseverance and collaborative action, with art at the forefront.

Electronic Waste Drive

Wednesday, April 6, from 7:30 am to 3 pm
Drescher Parking Lot S and Rho Lot

Do you have old, broken, or unused electronics cluttering your home? Donate them for a good cause!

The Center for Sustainability and the Office of Environmental Health and Safety are partnering with Homeboy Industries to collect and recycle, or appropriately dispose of, your eWaste items.

Accepted eWaste items include the following:
Computers*
Laptops*
Cell Phones
CDs and DVDs
Printers
Televisions
Game Systems
Cords

All computers, TVs, and laptops should be dropped off at the Drescher location where donuts will also be provided. All other accepted eWaste items can be dropped off at either the Drescher or Rho Lot locations.

*All computer hard drives will have files professionally removed.