What Do We Owe Young People in Times of Crisis?
We live in a time of polycrisis—a convergence of ecological, social, economic and mental health crises that are rooted in the modern/colonial system and its imposed sense of disconnection and hierarchy among species, cultures and individuals.
Preparing Young People (and Ourselves) for an Uncertain Future
Our usual strategies for addressing these crises are, paradoxically, part of the problem. Drawing on her work with the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective, Sharon Stein will share insights and ideas for interrupting our persistent patterns to cultivate deeper emotional stability, relational maturity, intellectual discernment, and intergenerational and interspecies responsibility.
Tickets
Adults: $22
Low-barrier (a lower-cost option, based on self-identified need): $15
Student/youth: Free
About Sharon Stein
Sharon Stein is a white settler scholar and an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. She asks how education (particularly higher education) can prepare people to navigate "wicked" challenges in socially relevant, relationally rigorous and intergenerationally responsible ways. Her current research is focused on the challenges of confronting difficult truths about colonialism and climate change.
Seeing education as the practice of encountering and being taught by the world in its full depth, complexity and contradiction, she collaborates with others through the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective, the Critically Engaged Climate Education Hub, the Critical Internationalization Studies Network, the Teia de 5 Curas Network of Indigenous communities in Brazil and as a visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.
This lecture is generously co-sponsored by the Osprey Foundation's Mental Wellness Fund.