UPCOMING EVENTS
CCU Faculty Fellows Workshops
April 18, 2025 | Noon - 1:00pm | Rm. 315
April 21, 2025 | Noon- 1:00pm | Rm. 415
April 30, 2025* | 11:30am - 1:00pm | Rm. 404
Richardson Memorial Hall
Uptown Campus
The Center on Climate Change and Urbanism presents its 2024-2025 Faculty Fellows Talks. Join the CCU fellows as they present their current work related to climate mitigation/adaptation. Fellows will share research-in-progress and get feedback from colleagues.
*The April 30th workshop includes special guest, Elizabeth Añaños Vega, architect, policymaker, and urban development leader focused on bridging social inequalities through public sector innovation. Formerly the vice minister of housing and urban development in Peru, Añaños accelerated the delivery of housing subsidies, benefiting more than 50,000 urban families and building more than 12,000 rural homes. As a 2025 International Eisenhower Fellow, she wants to create a venture that will support communities in implementing sustainable, climate-resilient housing models. Añaños will discuss the concept of radical adaptability through two case studies in Peru, each shaped by extreme environmental and socio-urban challenges.
Open to the TuSABE community.
Lunch provided.
PAST EVENTS
Navigating Climate Futures: Using Foresight Techniques to Build Resilience in Polarized Environments
April 10, 2025 | 12:00pm
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching
Room 306
Open to the public. Lunch Provided.
Foresight practitioner and “threatcaster” Greg Lindsay will explore how strategic foresight methods may assist public officials and other civic stakeholders address climate change challenges in a highly polarized political environment. Drawing on recent work with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Regional Plan Association, Lindsay will demonstrate how threatcasting and collaborative storytelling techniques enable stakeholders to visualize, prepare for, and respond to potential climate catastrophes.
The lecture will showcase practical applications of backcasting to develop actionable plans for both immediate climate crises and long-term adaptation strategies. Participants will gain insights into creating inclusive planning processes acknowledging diverse perspectives while building consensus around necessary interventions in our urban landscapes.
Book Talk: Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making
March 31, 2025 | 5:30pm
Thomson Lecture Hall
Richardson Memorial Hall
Uptown Campus
Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making is a visually rich introduction into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America’s coasts, rivers, and estuaries. Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life.
Authors Gena Wirth (SCAPE), Brett Milligan (UC Davis), and Rob Holmes (Auburn University) of the Dredge Research Collaborative will share recent research and geographic explorations into the world of sediment design, demonstrating why sediment matters now more than ever, given our contemporary context of sea level rise, environmental change, and spatial inequality. Drawing from the book, they’ll discuss how designers, particularly landscape architects, can work with this material to enact positive change in this engineering-dominated world.
Open to the public.
AMS Annual Meeting
January 12-16, 2025
New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
The American Meteorological Society's Annual Meeting is an opportunity for researchers, governments and private industry to share knowledge and address challenges of integrating research and societal decision-making through collaboration. The training and development of the next-generation workforce for the enterprise will be a crosscutting theme across sectors.
Public Health and the Built Environment
January 15, 2025 | 11:00am
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching
Room 306
Uptown Campus
Join Professor Jaime Madrigano from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for a conversation about public health and the built environment during the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society in New Orleans. Open to the public.
Lunch will be provided.
Scientific Integrity and For-Profit Climate Services
November 11, 2024 | 2pm
Virtual Event
Jointly convened with Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
By invitation only. Email CCU@tulane.edu for details.
Gulf Coast Climate Futures Symposium
November 1-2, 2024
Various locations
Registration required
A two-day symposium at Tulane University organized by the School of Architecture, in collaboration with the School of Engineering and financial support from the Gulf Futures Program, led by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Gulf Research Program. Full schedule and event details can be found at the Gulf Coast Climate Futures website.
Project Poldergeist: An experiment in creative reflection through animation.
October 25, 2024 | 11:30am - 12:45pm
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
The Taylor Center
Room 406
Professor Simon Richter of the University of Pennsylvania will present Project Poldergiest, an ongoing experiment combining video animation and climate science to inform and influence policy makers and the public about difficult and controversial aspects of climate adaptation. Moderated by Adam Marcus, Associate Professor of Architecture and Research Director of Tulane’s Center on Climate Change and Urbanism.
Lecture: Faustian Bargains & the Climate Emergency + reception
October 24, 2024 | 5pm
Stone Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Building
Room 210
Sometimes it takes a metaphor to shake us into critical awareness of what we are actually up to, whether that’s in Germany, the Netherlands, or Louisiana. In this lecture, Professor Simon Richter will show how these three metaphors, all loosely derived from that most German of legends, the story of Faust’s pact with the devil, illuminate our behavior and afford us perspective.
Please join the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies, in partnership with the German Embassy, for Professor Richter's lecture. The lecture will be followed by a catered reception.
Center on Climate Change and Urbanism Launch Event
October 8, 2024 | 12pm - 1pm
Lavin Bernick Center
Race Conference Room - 201
Join us for a lunchtime launch event for the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism. CCU directors will speak about the new center and plans for the upcoming year. Lunch will be provided.
