Summer 2025
Shaping Nature, Shaping Change: Black Ecologies at the End of the World
Dates: June 09, 2025 - July 04, 2025Day/Time: Monday; Tuesday; Wednesday; Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Level: 200-Level
Certificate: Global Studies*, Sustainability and Climate Change*
Instructor: Cynthia Malone, Bard College
This course explores the forces underlying planetary transformations and crises through the lens of Black ecologies. We will work with theory across the natural and social sciences to understand the intersection of global changes in climate and biocultural diversity with systems of oppression. Through case studies across the African diaspora, we explore how the ways we shape nature inform the ways that we shape change. Students will craft zines on their vision for liberatory ecological futures.
Credits: 4 US / 8 ECTS