The UO’s Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute will host a symposium this month bringing together community partners and faculty members, staff, students from Whitman College, the University of Idaho-Moscow, Heritage University and the University of Oregon […]
Month: November 2022
Who is Killing the Glaciers? From Glacier Funerals to Glacier Autopsies
Clark, dead. Pizol, dead. Okjökull, dead. A recent string of mountaintop deaths has inspired a new ceremony: glacier funerals. The Clark, Pizol, and Okjökull glaciers are only a few of many to disappear in recent decades, but they have been prominently mourned under international spotlight. The spectacle of glacier funerals provokes an important question: do they actually inspire action, accountability, and justice […]