Agenda

Day 1: June 12, 2025 (Thursday)

Location: Sheerr Room, Fay House
10 Garden Street, MA 02138

Schedule

TimeAgenda
9:30–10:00 AMContinental Breakfast Available at Fay House
10:00 AM–11:45 PMWelcome, Introductions, Agenda-Setting

1. Don Tontiplaphol (HRI) offers brief Radcliffe welcome 
2. JB opens the seminar, welcomes everyone, outlines questions and goals
3. VN offers a brief background on how we came to propose this event
4. Participants introduce themselves 

JB hopes you might include your goals for seminar, your live puzzles, and:

1. Nellie Amosi: Clean Energy and Environment Legacy – Transition Initiative
2. Michelle Wilde Anderson: EJ litigation
3. Jason Beckfield: Climate Sociology Lab, Cluster, ECS 10
4. Diane Davis: Regional and other scales of risks and governance
5. Cristina Garcia-Fernandez: Place-based work on the local-global
6. Patrick Greiner: Causation and heterogeneity
7. Valerie Nelson: Harvard-Cape Ann collaboration
8. Sarah Page: Rurality, urbanity, interdisciplinary communication
9. Rebecca Pearl-Martinez: Research translation and interdisciplinarity
10. Hannah Perls: EJ and cumulative impact assessment
11. Kristina Peterson: Problem-solving with multiple knowledges
12. Rosina Philippe: Rematriation
13. Frances Roberts-Gregory: Positionality
14. Sara Shostak: COMPACT
15. Ben Sovacool: Public engagement spectrum, speed-justice tension
16. Cassandra Swartz: How students engage climate change at Harvard
17. Dustin Tingley: Making a seminar specific, focused, concrete, useful
18. Charles Waldheim: How to think/ask about a landscape

JB will live-edit the agenda as participants introduce themselves

JB will track which ideas and questions go in which outputs/outlets/buckets
11:45 AM–12:00 PMBreak
12:00–1:30 PMLunch Discussion in the Seminar Room

JB leads a discussion defining terms, elaborating concepts, specifying questions

1. Social Process
2. Community
3. Trust
4. Polarization
5. Justice
6. Mitigation
7. Adaptation and Maladaptation
8. Resilience
9. Distribution
1:30–1:45 PMBreak
1:45–3:15 PMUseful Social Processes for Climate Justice and Energy Transition
1. What is needed in the current macropolitical environment?
2. How to bridge public | government divide?
3. How to connect conservation and climate organizations?
4. How can universities accelerate transition through just processes?
3:15-3:30 PMBreak
3:30-5:00 PMCape Ann: Massachusetts Cities and Towns

1. Valerie Nelson describes background of the project
2. Charles Waldheim provides an overview of the project
3. Sarah Page introduces us to Cape Ann, using videos
4. JB leads a discussion of what we want to learn tomorrow
5:00-6:00 PMBreak, Return to Cambria Hotel
6:00-8:00 PMDinner at Josephine, in the Cambria Hotel

Day 2: June 13, 2025 (Friday)

Location: Sheerr Room, Fay House
10 Garden Street, MA 02138

Schedule

TimeAgenda
9:00–9:30 AMParticipants arrive at Fay House for light breakfast
9:30-10:30 AMVan departs from 10 Garden Street for Gloucester working waterfront
10:30-11:00 AMArrive at Gloucester working waterfront, discussion tour by Valerie Nelson
11:00-11:10 AMDepart Gloucester working waterfront for Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester
11:10-11:45 AMArrive at Good Harbor Beach, discussion/tour by Sarah Page
11:45 AM-1:00 PMDepart Good Harbor Beach for return trip to Cambridge
1:00-3:00 PMArrive at Fay House for final session & working lunch

Potential useful products of the seminar

1. Briefs or playbooks for universities, CBOs, others
2. Research agendas with potential cases and comparisons
3. Pedagogical innovation for courses, programs
4. Future convenings, including groups/expertise omitted this time
3:00 PMSeminar concludes