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SUMMARY:"Stories\, Systems\, Survival" Earth Day Panel
DESCRIPTION:How do we care for ourselves\, and each other\, in the face of climate change? This panel featuring Tony\, Tyler\, and Ploy explores the connections between mental health\, community care\, and climate justice in a time of overlapping global crises. \nJoin us for a conversation on collective care practices\, the power of storytelling to connect lived experiences with environmental realities\, and how systems like inequality and colonialism shape both the climate crisis and its emotional impacts. Panelists will also share practical tools to help students stay grounded\, resilient\, and engaged. \n\nTony Perez Soto – Tony is an Indigenous climate activist and scholar whose work centers decolonization\, migration\, and Indigenous sovereignty; his perspective will ground Luther’s exploration of spirituality and climate justice through lived cultural and ancestral knowledge.\nTyler Massias – Tyler is an environmental justice activist/organizer and Earth Guardians’ Speakers Bureau Director whose work in food sovereignty and regenerative agriculture reflects a spiritually rooted approach to community resilience. He also brings a scientific and policy-oriented perspective.\nPloy Kongkapetch – Ploy is a multicultural therapist and founder of Heartwork Psychotherapy\, where she supports activists and changemakers in navigating the emotional impact of climate and social justice work. Her approach centers grief\, anger\, hope\, and exhaustion as essential parts of caring deeply\, helping individuals build more sustainable relationships with themselves and the movements they are part of.
URL:https://www.luther.edu/event/stories-systems-survival-earth-day-panel
LOCATION:Valders Hall of Science\, 206
CATEGORIES:CEPE,Current Students,Faculty and Staff,Local
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SUMMARY:"Embodying Indigenous Spirituality" Sihler Lecture
DESCRIPTION:As we care for Mother Earth and vice versa\, the feminine energy guides us to stewardship and spirituality with all our non-human relatives; embracing this energy will unlock for us a new way to engage with climate action decisively. This collaboration will invite students\, faculty\, and community members to explore how belief systems/cosmology\, cultural traditions\, and personal values shape our collective response to the climate crisis. \nWe will also highlight the vital role of Indigenous sovereignty\, examining how Indigenous spiritual worldviews\, land-based practices\, music as a sacred conduit between worlds\, and movements for self-determination offer essential guidance for climate justice and ecological restoration. By bringing together scientific understanding with deep moral\, cultural\, and spiritual reflections\, the event aims to cultivate a sense of shared responsibility and interconnection during a moment of global social\, ecological\, and spiritual degradation. \nThis keynote is featuring one of our nationally recognized Earth Guardians Speakers\, Tony Perez Soto\, whose activism\, lived experience\, and spiritual grounding illuminate new pathways for climate engagement.
URL:https://www.luther.edu/event/embodying-indigenous-spirituality-sihler-lecture
LOCATION:Valders Hall of Science\, 206
CATEGORIES:CEPE,Current Students,Faculty and Staff,Local
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Women's History Month Keynote: Shelley Buffalo: Rematriation and Indigenous Futurism
DESCRIPTION:This event has been rescheduled for Monday\, April 27 at 4:30 p.m. \nShelley Buffalo\, Decolonial Pathfinder\, is a food sovereignty\, rematriation and restorative justice advocate. Through collaborative partnerships and her consultancy\, Water Panther\, Shelley mindfully directs her labor to penetrate and transcend the colonial mindset. Through creative and compassionate solutions\, Shelley seeks a path forward to a livable\, equitable and biodiverse future on Earth. The story of Grandmother Spider who weaves the pattern of life on Earth teaches us the creative potential of making the pattern more beautiful than before as we hone our skills and vision informed by humility\, value and respect for life on Earth. Shelley calls on her ancestors to help her weave with Grandmother’s hands; with wisdom\, love and care for all of creation. \nShelley believes that the undoing of colonial structures is necessary for reweaving something more beautiful as is Grandmother Spider’s lesson for human life on earth. Each time we reweave the fabric of society\, we have the opportunity to make it more beautiful. \n 
URL:https://www.luther.edu/event/womens-history-month-speaker-shelly-buffalo
LOCATION:Center for Faith and Life\, Recital Hall
CATEGORIES:CEPE,Current Students,Faculty and Staff,Local
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Black Joy in the Midwest
DESCRIPTION:Join Identity Studies for a panel discussion on Black joy in the Midwest. Hear from speakers around the region such as Ashley Howard\, assistant professor of History at Univ. of Iowa\, Eugene Tesdahl\, professor of history at UW-Platteville; Frank King\, associate professor of History at UW-Platteville and Mark Guerci\, assistant professor at Luther College. Sponsored by the Identity Studies Department and the Lucille Brickner Brown Price Lecture.
URL:https://www.luther.edu/event/panel-discussion-black-joy-in-the-midwest
LOCATION:Center for Faith and Life\, Recital Hall
CATEGORIES:Current Students,Faculty and Staff,Local
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SUMMARY:Price Lecture: Leadership Institute for Indigenous and Afro-descendent Women from Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona hosts two highly select groups of Indigenous and Afro-descendent women between the ages of 18 and 24 from different Latin American countries for the Study of the United States Institute (SUSI)\, funded by the US Department of State. In this talk\, the director of the Institute\, Dr. Marcela Vásquez-León\, will reflect on her decade long experience mentoring these students. She will focus on how the program is a transformational site in which the participants envision and build a sense of intersectional feminism along the lines of what feminist Lelia Gonzalez has called amefricanidade (amefricanity)\, creating networks of solidarity that go beyond the program. At the same time\, challenges and contradictions arise given the ways in which the institute itself is situated in the larger geopolitics of U.S./Latin American relations.
URL:https://www.luther.edu/event/price-lecture-leadership-institute-for-indigenous-and-afro-descendent-women-from-latin-america
LOCATION:Olin 102
CATEGORIES:Current Students,Faculty and Staff,Local
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