You are invited to CHL PhD Candidate Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's Confirmation of Candidature.
Time: 10am to 11am AEDT
Date: Thursday, 13 March 2025
Speaker: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, PhD Candidate
Venue: Room 3.369, HC Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Rd and Online via Zoom
Meeting ID: 868 6490 2425
Meeting Passcode: 308033
This creative thesis analyses the climate coloniality of Marshall Islands' national adaptation policies, arguing that the climate crisis is the latest continuing saga of colonialism impacting the Marshall Islands and Marshallese cultural relationships to land. It presents new poetry inspired by my experiences as an activist and working in the national and international climate space, weaving in the climate crisis with the nuclear legacy, and exploring Marshallese deep time relationships to land and modern identity.