IDays 2025: Full Schedule

1:00pm PDT

Guest Scholar Dr. Alice Sharp

Wednesday March 12, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT

Speakers

Dr. Alice Sharp

Professor of the Department of Biology, Chiang Mai University

Dr Sharp has over 20 years of experience in natural resource management and is a specialist in using the rural participatory approach in natural resource management. Her extensive work in Southeast Asia includes participatory wetland management, non-timber forest product food security... Read More →

Wednesday March 12, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
TBD

Conference

9:00am PDT

Guest Scholar Bayo Akomolafe

Thursday March 13, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Online

Dr. Akomolafe's work is an inspiring and innovative response to climate emergencies. He works in liminal spaces to try to open new ways to approach the crisis (that is not only climatic, it involves the complex entanglement of social justice and environmental justice issues).
Dr. Akomolafe will provide TRU audiences with a provocative *online* talk on anti-racism, decolonial efforts, and healing, titled “Why I Am Not An Anti-Racist.” This presentation would explore the complexities of racialization, healing, and identity from his unique perspective, and he is confident it will provoke meaningful conversation.

Speakers

Bayo Akomolafe

Bayo Akomolafe is the grateful life partner to ‘EJ’, father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, son of Olufunmilayo Ibidapo Akomolafe and Ignatius Abayomi Akomolafe, and descendant of Yoruba fields of archetypal becomings and mythopoeic landscapes. He is an author, celebrated... Read More →

Thursday March 13, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Online

Conference