Professor Chris J. Cuomo is participating in a five-year multidisciplinary Fulbright project on “Sustainable Strategies for Repair, Response and Recovery from Weather Disasters in Rio Grande do Sul Through International Academic Cooperation,” with colleagues in Philosophy, Biology and Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Professor Chris Cuomo (second from right) pictured with fellow ecofeminism panelists in Porto Alegre, Brazil. To kick off the project, in November she traveled to Porto Alegre with Philosophy graduate student Max Barton, where she presented four days of keynote lectures on ecofeminism, local knowledge, and climate ethics. Barton also presented lectures on environmental ethics and the morality of protecting invasive species. They then traveled to Federal University of Pará, Belém where Cuomo presented lectures and spoke as part of a symposium on “Slavery, Climate Crisis, and the Amazon: Dialogues on Human Rights and Sustainability in the Agricultural Frontier,” organized in dialogue with the themes of the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30). pictured above: Cuomo & Barton flanked by fellow Fulbright scholars from Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Type of News/Audience: Faculty News Graduate Student News
