Dana R Fisher

 

Upcoming:

• 21 September 2026 – Who’s Really Talking About Climate? Discussion of the TCC Landscape Assessment at Solutions House during Climate Week NYC. 2:30.
• 6 October 2026 – Keynote Address at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Annual Meeting (AASHE). Baltimore, MD.
• 5 November 2026 – Department of Sociology Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. 12pm.
• 12 November 2026 – Conversation about Sparking (and Sustaining) Climate Action: Individual Changes and Systemic Responses. Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. 4:15.

Previous Talks Available Online (in reverse order):

• 18 June 2026 – Keynote address, “Saving Ourselves in this Polycrisis,” at the International Conference on Environment and Society (and the meeting of the German Longitudinal Environmental Study), Insel Mainau, Germany.
• 6 April 2026 – From Activists to Terrorists: How NSPM-7 Seeks to Use ‘Domestic Terrorism’ to Target Non-Profits and Activists. New York Society for Ethical Culture, NYC, 7pm.
• 30 January 2026 – Keynote speech at the Winter Symposium on Strategic Communication for Collective Action, Columbia University School of Professional Studies.

• 29 October – Saving Ourselves in a PolyCrisis.  Buen Vivir Oct 2025. 3-4pm.
• 25 September – Conversations about Building Community Resilience in the Face of Extreme Events and Roundtable on Climate Communication in a Polarized World at House of Scientista.
• 3 September – Saving Ourselves in Times of Crisis. Canadian Club of Rome.
• 5 August – The Climate Shift: Action, Optimism & What Matters Now. 
• 22 April 2025 – Press Briefing: The Future of Climate Activism. Covering Climate Now.
• 1 April 2025 – Conversation with Katharine Hayhoe after her lecture at AU SIS.
• 10 March 2025 – Apocalyptic Optimism: What Works for Continuing Climate Action. Terra.do, 9am PT/12pm ET.
• 4 December 2024 – Keynote speaker, Climate Solutions to Keep 1.5 Alive: Pushing Boundaries Through Collective Action. UN Development Program Geneva at the United Nations Headquarters and online on We Don’t Have Time. 15:30 CEST / 9:30 EST.
• 29 October 2024 – TED Talk recorded at TED Countdown 2024. The EGG, Brussels.
• 15 October 2024 – Climate Conversations in Cars, Episode 3 with Dana R. Fisher.  We Don’t Have Time (recorded during Climate Week NYC).
• 27 September 2024 – Conversation with Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson about Saving Ourselves at the Nest during Climate Week NYC for We Don’t Have Time.
• 11 April 2024 – Conversation with Andrew Dudley at the Commonwealth Club of California on BookTV
• 8 March 2024 – Conversation with Mustafa Santiago Ali at Politics and Prose. 
• 5 March 2024 – Splashy Climate Protests Get Attention, But What About Impact? Conversation with Andy Revkin for Sustain What
• 28 February 2024 – Conversation about Saving Ourselves with Dharna Noor at the Library of Congress.
• 13 February 2024 – Conversation about Saving Ourselves with Pennie Opal Plant, Kathleen Sullivan, and Susana Hancock at the Cambridge Forum.
• 7 December 2023 – Research Spotlight on Climate Activism at the COP28 Climate Hub at American University with We Don’t Have Time.
• 19 September 2023 – Conversation with Isaias Hernandez at the We Don’t Have Time Climate Hub during Climate Week 2023
• 27 April 2023 – #AskTheExperts Webinar on Youth, Digital Spaces, and Social Movements, Institute of Digital Media and Child Development.
  • Recording of event available at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oitujDVxBvo
• 22 September 2021 – “Mobilizing Activism in the US: Insights from the American Resistance and Beyond,” Plenary at the L’Institut des Amériques (IdA) Biennial conference, Paris, France.
  • Video of event available at:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDSOI15eFY&t=6s 
• 22 July 2021 – Social Movements and the Future of American Democracy with Hahrie Han, Leah Wright Rigueur, and Theda Skocpol sponsored by the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins
  • Summary and link to video of event available at: https://blogs.loc.gov/kluge/2021/07/watch-now-to-learn-about-the-movements-shaping-american-democracy/ 
• 10 December 2020 – “How Can Social and Environmental Movements Build Political Power?” Ask a Scientist event for Extinction Rebellion
  • Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8FUAOQ9N8U 
• 29 October 2020 – Panel discussion on the Climate Crisis and the 2020 Election at Clark University
  • Available at: https://newearthconversation.org/the-climate-crisis-and-the-2020-election-public-program/ 

• 22 October 2020 – “American Resistance: Looking Back while Marching Forward” in conversation with Joseph O’Neill, Frankfurt in Paris talk at Reid Hall, Paris, France.

  • Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTYm1ahPuA&feature=youtu.be
• 8 October 2020 – “American Resistance: Looking Back while Marching Forward” conversation with David Madden at the London School of Economics, London, England. 7:30-8:30pm
  • available at: https://youtu.be/O38eWnsFUeA

• 9 March 2018 – Panel Discussion on activism in the age of Resistance, The Girls’ Lounge at SXSW, Austin, Texas.

  • Video of part of my panel about the 2018 elections on YouTube

• 8 July 2018-Plenary Speaker on “The Science of Marching for Science: Leveraging scholarship to inform science advocacy and education strategies” panel at the inaugural S|GNS Summit (Science | Government, Institutions & Society),  9am, Hilton, Chicago.

  • Video of talk available here.