The Hemispheric Institute at New York University invites you to “Hurricane Worlds: Extinctions and Futures,” a symposium convened by Professor Lisa Paravisini-Gebert, 2025 Scholar in Residence and NYU Visiting Scholar. This event takes place on Thursday, May 1, 2025, from 10:00am to 5:00pm, at 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space.
This is an in-person event that requires registration. All non-NYU attendees must RSVP in advance. RSVP here. Video documentation will be made available on the Institute website following the event.
Description: “Hurricane Worlds: Extinctions and Futures” will consider the forms of life that hurricanes decimate, what they inaugurate, the human and non-human displacements they produce, and how hurricane worlds augur the future of the planet. The symposium brings together artists, scholars, and scientists to meditate on threats and horizons, and invites the audience to know the work of Dhara Rivera, Deborah Jack, Joseph Wunderle, Yvan Satgé, Tamika Galanis, and Ruben Natal-San Miguel.
The event is part of “Hurricane Worlds,” a multi-year initiative led by Institute Director Ana Dopico that seeks to gather the epistemologies, world-making, and art-making of people who live and have lived in hurricane worlds. We look beyond environmental and climatological surveillance, state emergency management, and crisis capitalism to consider the ways of life and ways of knowing that hurricanes inaugurate. We consider how hurricane peoples build modes of sovereignty and care, and we seek to preserve the vernacular histories, artistry, and communal archives that survive in hurricane time.
For more information, see https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/events/hurricane-worlds-2.html
The Hemispheric Institute at New York University invites you to “Hurricane Worlds: Extinctions and Futures,” a symposium convened by Professor Lisa Paravisini-Gebert, 2025 Scholar in Residence and NYU Visiting Scholar. This event takes place on Thursday, May 1, 2025, from 10:00am to 5:00pm, at 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space. This is an in-person event