Mimi Sheller News Today

For the first time, an agreement acknowledged the role of fossil fuels in driving climate change. Climate advocates, policy makers, and scientists say much more action is needed, fast.

The Global School is proud to be part of the Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (CCAN), which was initially awarded $6 million in federal funding in 2022. CCAN, a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership (CAP) seeks to address climate change issues by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of universities, agencies, and non-governmental organizations serving the United States territories of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John).

Keeping a statue to William Beckford in London reeks of moral failure, says lecturer and broadcaster Robert Beckford

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Their distinct strategies have a common thread. Also, the U.S. government ends its Covid-era student-visa policy.

Songs give a voice to the timelessness of the body’s performative archive. Certain tropes, accents, and melodies recur. Melancholia’s effect is not merely negative. Rather, as viraha-biraha-biroho, it can sanction the development of alternative sense of community through what academic and poet Sudesh Mishra has called a “radical potentiality,” which may or may not be realised

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The University of Wollongong is hosting a number of speakers who will discuss the ongoing impact of Covid-19 and how personal and societal mobility has been changed as a result.

As planners across the globe look to increase cycling as a mode of transportation in the face of climate change, Communication, Culture and Media (CCM) doctoral student Alejandro Manga researches the role bike movements can have in building a culture of cycling for a just ecological transition.

In the summer of 2021, a beloved colleague and Professor Emeritus at WPI, Arthur Gerstenfeld, informed me that the U.S. Department of Education’s Business and International Education (BIE) program was about to be resurrected after an almost 10-year absence. This was the same BIE program to which Art had applied successfully in 2006 in his grant forging links between the U.S.