Voices in Conversation: A Climate Commons Dialogue Series
Voices in Conversation is a new Climate Commons initiative dedicated to bringing scholars, artists, activists, and community organizers into shared dialogue across borders, disciplines, and lived experience. Each session gathers participants for a live, public conversation that foregrounds situated knowledge, collective reflection, and the urgent work of imagining just and livable futures.
At a time when ecological crisis is inseparable from militarism, displacement, extractivism, and the uneven distribution of harm, Voices in Conversation creates space for thinking with those whose insights emerge from the frontlines of struggle and care. These dialogues centre the forms of life, resistance, creativity, and joy that persist despite structures of violence, and that help us understand what must endure beyond them.
This initiative hopes to cultivate reciprocal exchange: participants speak with one another across geographies and histories often held apart, unsettling narratives and opening new possibilities for solidarity. Each event invites audiences to listen closely, ask generously, and consider how climate justice is always entangled with questions of sovereignty, survival, and collective flourishing.
Below, you’ll find details for upcoming and past conversations in the series.
Join Climate Commons on March 25 @4PM over zoom for “Beyond Occupation and Extraction: Palestinian and Venezuelan Voices in Conversation”
In a moment when Donald Trump’s extractivist war machine seems unconstrained by anything other than the price of oil, and the international order, long on the rocks, is finally breaking up, we must not forget to attend to the myriad forms of life, resistance, and even joy that work against and despite neoimperialism in specific places. What can the lived experience of unspeakable violence teach us not about militarism and extractivism but about what can, should, and must endure beyond them? In this 90 minute live online dialogue, scholars from Caracas, Venezuela and the Gaza Strip share their experiences, ideas, fears, and hopes across the long-discredited but still pernicious orientalist dichotomy of East and West.