Nature, Space, & Politics
International Institute Faculty and Graduate Working Group
International Institute Faculty & Graduate Working Group
Group meetingsAbout
We are an interdisciplinary and cross-divisional group of faculty and graduate students working across the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC San Diego and interested in questions of space and politics. We are funded by the International Institute and meet three times per quarter to share research in progress, co-organize events, read together and bring guest speakers to campus. Read more about us.
This year
Continuing the call to forge alternative futures, our theme for the 2023-2024 academic year is “Climate Change, Displacement, Reparation.” Expanding on our previous years’ preoccupation with ecologies of border(ing) processes and refusals of their constitutive violences at the interfaces of air, land and water, this year we will attend to the complex configuration and terrain of “Climate Refugees” – human and more than human.
Next event
SAVE THE DATES! February 6-7, 2025 After close consultation with our collaborators, university sponsors, and community partners, and in light of UAW 4811 graduate student workers’ imminent strike in solidarity with Gaza, in Spring 2024 the Nature, Space, and Politics team made the difficult decision to postpone the remaining events of the "Displacement and Reparation: Climate, Labor, and Migration Justice Symposium" until a future term. Those important events have now been rescheduled for Thursday February 6th and Friday February 7th, 2025. Please save those dates and be on the lookout for more information soon!
Stay in the loop
If you want to keep updated about events and discussions, you can join our mailing list by emailing us at naturespacepolitics@ucsd.edu