{"id":12241,"date":"2021-11-02T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=12241"},"modified":"2022-02-26T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T18:31:29","slug":"navigating-climate-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2021\/11\/02\/navigating-climate-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating climate trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to share my talk from the recent Vermont Humanities conference. It captures the essence of things I&#8217;ve been writing and thinking about over the last while. And rather incredibly for a humanities conference, it was 100% glitch-free (despite the talk&#8217;s audio-visual intricacies; well, the image fades aren\u2019t perfectly smooth, but those can be difficult for videoconferencing software to deal with). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talk is 40 minutes long; the remainder is Q&amp;A. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermonthumanities.org\/\">Vermont Humanities<\/a> and its director, Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, and programs and communications director Ryan Newswanger, for the invitation to speak and for the smooth delivery of the event. And thanks to Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Yeampierre, and the others who made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermonthumanities.org\/programs\/public-programs\/annual-fall-conference\/fall-conference-2021\/\">This Maz\u00e9d World<\/a> a provocative and rewarding week of climate-focused presentations, and to the UVM Center for Community Engagement for supporting it.<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FrIQ3WRF4NA?fbclid=IwAR3cpknAIy3ipJBnbQSdu9aD38tqdD8vIjH3kRO-jNhjQEtxkVXwhgEedD4\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrIQ3WRF4NA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to share my talk from the recent Vermont Humanities conference. 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And rather incredibly for a humanities conference, it was 100% glitch-free (despite the talk&#8217;s audio-visual intricacies; well, the image fades aren\u2019t perfectly smooth, but those can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688615,520594],"tags":[692685,123667,660320,692680,25187,692696,692695],"class_list":["post-12241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropo_scene","category-climate-politics","tag-andrei-tarkovsky","tag-anthropocene","tag-climate-trauma","tag-solaristics","tag-the-zone","tag-this-mazed-world","tag-vermont-humanities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-3br","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12159,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2021\/09\/27\/garden-dump-conference-videos\/","url_meta":{"origin":12241,"position":0},"title":"Garden &amp; Dump conference videos","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Videos from the Aarhus (Denmark) conference \"The Garden and the Dump: Across More-than-Human Entanglements\" are available and free for the viewing, here on the conference YouTube channel. 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