Speaking — Fernando Tormos-Aponte

Lectures

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Out of Power but Not Powerless: Electoral Consequences of Disaster Response to Hurricane María in Puerto Rico

University of Pittsburgh Center for Latin American Studies Speaker Series. February 2023.

Building a Democracy for All

Union of Concerned Scientists Webinar. January 2023.

Introduction to Social Science

NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST). January 2023.

Energy Inequality in the Wake of Disasters

Politics of Crisis Course. Occidental College. October 2022.

Hurricane Fiona Teach-In: Decolonizing Recovery

Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) September 2022.

Union of Concerned Scientists Science Advocacy Movement School

2022.

Social Capital, Community Health Resilience, and Compounding Hazards in Corcovada, Puerto Rico

Strengthening Community Resilience in U.S. Territories Webinar. Public Health Disaster Research Award Program. UC Boulder. July 2022.

A Pedagogy of the Strike: Educations and the Commons

Organizing Collective Action Working Group Presentation. August 2022.

Energy Inequality in the Wake of Disasters

National Center for Atmospheric Research Early Career Innovator Program Day of Research.

Science Network Survey Report

Union of Concerned Scientists Center for Science and Democracy. June 2022.

Introduction to Social Science

NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST). June 2022.

Social Vulnerability in Majority-Minority Communities

Presentation for the Center for Disease Control Social Vulnerability Index Team. June 2022.

Energy Inequality in the Wake of Disasters

Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. June 2022.

A Pedagogy of the Strike: Educations and the Commons

Centro de Estudos Sociais. Universidade de Coimbra. May 2022.

Justicia Ambiental en el Contexto de Desastres

Department of Environmental Sciences. Universidad de Puerto Rico. April 2022.

Energy Inequality in the Wake of Disasters

Environmental and Climate Justice/Energy Justice Conference. US Environmental Protection Agency. April 2022.

Misinformation Disinformation Panel

ESE Symposium 2022 Purdue University. April 2022.

Energy Inequality in the Wake of Disasters

Department of Political Science. University of Maryland College Park. March 2022.

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Critical thinking and embodied learning for a Puerto Rican student movement pedagogy

Youth and Adult Education in Latin America and Caribbean Social Movements Book Webinar. Penn State University. March 2022.

Science Advocacy

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Citizen Science & Scientist Citizen Course. March 2022.

Social Movements and Intersectional Solidarity

Howard University February 2022.

A Tale of Two Territories: Missouri’s Road to Statehood and Puerto Rico’s Status in the US

Missouri Historical Society. October 2021.

Social Movements and Intersectional Solidarity

Northwestern University. October 2021.

Energy Inequality in the Wake of Disasters

NOAA ESRL-CSC Day. October 2021.

CAHSS Faculty Media Training Workshop

University of Maryland Baltimore County. September 2021.

Puerto Ricans at the Fault Lines

University of Maryland Baltimore County Humanities Forum. September 2021.

Yale Postdoctoral Association Symposium

June 2021.

ACLS Innovation Foundry

June 2021.

Intersectional Synthesis: A Case Study of the Colectiva Feminista en Construcción

with Shariana Ferrer Núñez. Latinas & the Politics of Urban Spaces. Virtual Plática. Esperanza Center. March 2021.

Qualitative Research

Grand Challenge Scholars Program. University of Maryland Baltimore County. February 2021.

Minority Graduate Placement Program

with Mayra Vélez-Serrano. School of Global Policy and Strategy. University of California San Diego. February 2021.

Social Movements and Intersectional Solidarity

Northwestern University. January 2021.

Radical Caribbean Imaginations

Caribbean Political Economy Group (C-PEG) webinar series on the topic of Education and the Caribbean Economy. December 2020.

Strengthening Science Advocacy

Macalester College. November 4, 2020.

A Pedagogy of the Strike: Educations and the Commons

Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science, Baltimore, MD, April 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic)

Summer 2019 Protests in Puerto Rico

Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, Ponce, Puerto Rico, October 2019.

Intersectional Solidarity in the Climate Justice Movement

University of Maryland, College Park, October 2019.

Puerto Rico, Colonialism, and the Politics of Survival

Purdue University, April 2019.

The Racial and Gender Dimensions of Political Opportunity

Washington University, St. Louis, October 2018.

Staying alive: Diversity and inclusion in Transnational Social Movement Organizations

University of Missouri-St.Louis, October 2018.

Colonialism in Times of María

Washington University, St. Louis, October 2018.

For Whom Does Democracy Work? The Political Influence of the Black Lives Matter Movement 2014-2018

Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, August 2018.

Puerto Rico at the Precipice

Washington University, St. Louis, October 2017.

Mobilizing Diversity: The Power of Inclusion in Transnational Social Movements

Faculty Colloquium Series, University of Missouri – St. Louis, October 2017.

Mobilizing Difference: the Power of Inclusion in Transnational Social Movements

Intersectional Solidarity

Lafayette, IN, January 2017.

Building Transnational Social Movements

Department of Political Science, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR, April 2016.

Inclusive Deliberation, Diversity and Solidarity in Transnational Social Movements

(With Laurel Weldon) Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2016.

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Puerto Rican Student Movement

Annual Conference of the United Students Against Sweatshops, Washington, D.C., August 2015.