Tuesday, November 11 2025, 2 - 3pm Virtual Seminar Join us for a virtual talk, “The Abundant Kinship of Mycelium in an Era of Climate Chaos,” presented by Dr. Jaquetta Shade-Johnson, Citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Dr. Shade-Johnson will explore how networks of kinship, community, and ecology, rooted in Indigenous perspectives, offer pathways for resilience and connection in the face of environmental crisis. In this era of what the Indigenous Environmental Network terms climate chaos and our collective dissociation from the natural world, it is imperative that we remember our relations to the earth and the teachings of our mycelium relatives to imagine, envision, and enact abundant futures. Using a cultural rhetorics framework and grounded in Indigenous ecological knowledge and lived experience, Shade-Johnson constellates mycelium networks, economies of abundance, and kinship relations as rhetorical models of human and more-than-human interconnection in the face of climate chaos, followed by a guided activity for mapping abundance across our own kinship communities. All faculty, staff, students, and the public welcome!
