This week! Catch lots of incredible @ClimateHeritage folks talking about empowering people to imagine low carbon, just, climate resilient futures through culture and heritage!
International Congress of Culture in Climate Action
Virtual activity, 4 to 6 December 2024
Guest speakers: Chris Wiebe, Jenny Hay, Stacy Vallis, Andrew Simpson.
Last days for registration at https://t.co/0rOOc5Ujtf
Transform your city's climate future with the Race to Resilience Culture Initiative! 🌍 U.S. & African cities can integrate culture & heritage into climate resilience strategies.
🔗: https://t.co/xbyQgs2NTA
@ICLEIAfrica, @ClimateHeritage
Ready to protect heritage sites from climate change? Apply now to join the 2025 Preserving Legacies Leadership Cohort!
No-cost 12-month training
Funds for hands-on workshops
Scientific & $$ resources
Global speaking opportunities
Apply by Jan 3: https://t.co/OrZxXLQ0sL
*Global Call to Action to put Culture at the Heart of Climate Action at COP* This is the best chance we have ever had to put culture - heritage, arts, & the creative sectors - at the heart of international climate policy, planning & action. Add your voice! https://t.co/tRS82GpW5Z
This!!! @climateheritage will be there to advocate for the UNFCCC to champion culture-based climate action. Learn more and join us in the Global Call to Action: https://t.co/mGAsl4NXRd
As #COP29 nears, we met to discuss culture in the face of climate change. It is time to shift the narrative around culture from vulnerability to a source for #mitigation & #adaptation. In Azerbaijan, @UNESCO will call for culture-based climate action with community at its centre.
In our magazine: In the 1970s, when San Antonio military police began raiding queer bars, the community found a unique, theatrical way to fight back ... https://t.co/BieXJPlk3f
We talked *at length* about how better metadata 🤓 can save money and time, and most importantly prevent unnecessary GhG emissions.
Tomorrow is all about MAPS 🗺️ ����
#climateheritage #digitalhumanities #publichistory
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One day left in @turinginst's Data/Culture workshop. W/historians, archivists, librarians, data scientists, and research software engineers from around the world (+ virtual @LWieck) I've learned ...
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...how technology can help us identify and address inequities in the digital archive. We've tested new analytical tools for historic newspaper collections that can extract and clean toponyms and define sample datasets based on location, date, keyword, and politics.
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We’re excited to share the Race to Resilience Culture, funded by a $1.25M @MellonFdn grant! With @ICLEIAfrica & @ClimateHeritage, we will build climate resilience in U.S. & African cities using culture & heritage strategies. #CulturalHeritage
Learn more: https://t.co/CgI8xn76tE
As part of the Imagining Futures project, #ClimateHeritage member @CCFU_NGO will lead a @MellonFdn-funded CHN Africa initiative to leverage more support to help African culture advocates protect their knowledge, values & heritage & claim a leadership role in climate action. 🌍🔆
Thrilled to announce a $1,250,000 @MellonFdn grant for “Imagining Low Carbon, Just, Climate Resilient Futures Through Culture and Heritage” which along with other gifts will put $1.5M to work supporting culture-based climate action. 🙏
🔗 https://t.co/yjvupZnkcP
#climateheritage
!!! Excited and honored to be part of this transformative effort! @popsatx and @sapreservation will lead one of the five projects, building capacity and elevating the diverse voices of our @ClimateHeritage members in North America!
The @ClimateHeritage network has been awarded a $1,250,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for the “Imagining Low Carbon, Just, Climate Resilient Futures through Culture and Heritage” Project.
The Project consists of five complementary initiatives coordinated by @ClimateHeritage
If you are an AT&T customer in Louisiana, please prepare alternative communication methods for the upcoming hurricane. AT&T workers in the southeastern area are currently on strike, so it could take some time to get back on if the service goes out.
The Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin Fall of academic year 2025-26. We seek a historian who specializes in the area of Atlantic Slavery and the African Diaspora in the U.S. before 1865.