Lectures, Workshops & Panels
Multidisciplinary Speaking
Feminism, art and sexual violence, intersectionality, and climate justice are topics Aviva Rahmani addresses in public and academic lectures, talks, workshops and panels. Her voice is sought to speak about the ecology of rebuilding degraded systems and the resilience of forest contiguity.
Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops & Panels
Talking About Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence panelist die Firma, New York, NY, February 24, 2020
Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene panelist Wave Hill House, Bronx NY, March 24 2020
Law: Perspectives on Environmental Justice moderated conversation for the University of Minnesota Spotlight Series 2019 -20, Northrop Theater, Minneapolis, MN, November 7 2019
Can the Spirit of Art Conserve Forest Contiguity? presentation for the 2019 Nature, Ecology and Society Network Colloquium CUNY, New York, NY March 1 2019
Ecology as Intersectionality: Radicalizing Arts of Climate Justice participant in roundtable discussion organized by TJ Demos and Emily Eliza Scott, NYU, New York, NY, Feb 14, 2019
Island Place a 6-part, reading, discussion and journaling workshop made possible with an Arts & Humanities Grant from the Maine Humanities Council, co-led with Scott Candage, Vinalhaven Public Library, Vinalhaven, ME June - August 2018
Precarious Sounds // Sounding Sanctuary NYU Music Department Conference, New York NY, February 16–17 2018
Intervening into a Feverish World panelist for the Feverish World Symposium organized by the EcoCulture Lab and University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 22 2018
International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), Columbia University, NYC NY 2018
Landscape Justice debate/workshop participant for a special symposium hosted by the Landscape, 2017
Research Group, at the Wellcome Collection, London UK, December 6 2017
Extinct Icons & Ritual Burials artist’s talk, ONCA Gallery, Brighton, UK, December 8 2017
International Congress of Ecology, INTECOL, Moderated by Principle Investigator Dr. Changwoo Ahn, of George Mason), Beijing, China, 2017
Infiltration Art, College Art Association, CUNY, New York NY, 2017
Us and the Animal Other panel moderator at Central Booking, New York, NY, January 13th, 2017
MODELS OF DIVERSITY: CURRENT TRANSDISCOURSES IN ART, SCIENCE AND SOCIAL, 2016
ISSUES Moderated by Angela Hillbeck and Jill Scott Zurich, Switzerland February 19-20 2016
Home/Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are panelist American Studies 2016
Association (ASA) Conference Denver, CO, November 17- 20 2016
Master Class Music Composition, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA November 4 2016
Blued Trees Symphony talk and performance for EcoScience+Art, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, November 3 2016
Blued Trees for Aqueous Earth ISCP Talk Sponsored by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) at ISCP Brooklyn NY, 2015
The Value of Food, Food, Water and Art: Connections and Advocacy Panel Discussion at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Cathedral House, New York, NY, November 21 2015
Art, Activism and Global Warming panelist at Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY, January 28 2015
‘Towards resilient ecosystems: restoring the urban, the rural and the wild’ in GAIA Resonant Visions curated by James Brady for SER 6th World Conference on Ecological Restoration Film screening and artist's talk, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, August, 27 2015
‘The Feminist Tea Party Series at the Abrons Arts Center’ Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY January 8 2015