Environment Seminar Series: Interrupting colonial extraction: grief, hope, and apocalypse time with Dr. Anne Spice
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The School of the Environment invites you to virtually attend this seminar led by Dr. Anne Spice, as part of our 2025-26 Environment Seminar Series.
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About the Seminar
Participation in movements to protect the land and water from industrial extraction is an experience soaked in grief. Our passionate activist communities fragment and move on. The pipelines are built through pristine Indigenous territories. The ancient trees are cut down and sold for profit. How do we approach these endings without giving into apocalyptic despair? What does it mean to find hope in a fight that keeps recurring in devastating new ways? How are our interruptions to settler capitalism and colonialism made to matter, even in the aftermath of industrial destruction?
About the Speaker
Dr. Anne Spice
Anne Spice is inland Tlingit, Deishuhíttaan clan (Carcross Tagish/ Tlingit), and a member of Kwanlin Dün First Nation. She has been supporting Indigenous land re-occupations since 2015, and her work dwells in the intersection of Indigenous geographies, poetry and art. Her current book project is an activist auto-ethnography of Indigenous anti-pipeline resistance, and her research and art connect ancestral Tlingit tattooing practices to mental health and recovery in the Yukon.