The first workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Public Program, part of the Loss and Damage Collaboration's Art and Culture program, will provide an introduction to the issue of loss and damage caused by the climate crisis. Through a dialogue between Loss and Damage expert and advocate Harjeet Singh and interdisciplinary scholar and author Dr. Farhana Sultana, the workshop seeks to explore what loss and damage is, provide a brief history of Loss and Damage under the United Nations Climate Negotiations, and consider what Loss and Damage means by unpacking the relationship between Loss and Damage, climate coloniality, calls for reparations and climate justice, as well as anti-colonial, civil rights, and other forms of activism. The workshops' speakers will also consider how can we integrate more decolonial, anticolonial, feminist, antiracist, and anticapitalist critiques, and struggles —including those explored by artists— into mainstream climate discourses and practices to redress ongoing oppressions and marginalizations (F.Sultana, Decolonizing Climate Coloniality).

Find the reading list from the speakers here.

Find the slide show form the webinar here.

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