At this year’s Irigaray Circle: Touching the World, at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, I will present my essay “Becoming Trickster: Irigaray Inhabiting the Impossible.” My essay and presentation focus on my Irigarayan-inspired performative photographs that…
Vanderbilt University, Keynote, Julia Kristeva, Kristeva Circle DOWLOAD THE VIDEO
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Fictional Bodies: Probing the Private and the Public Centre for Social Theory, Deleuze Studies Journal, Aesthetics and the Political in Contemporary India: Deleuzian Explorations, Mumbai, India DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO
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Please join us online for the book launch of our new book with Palgrave MacMillan! Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters My essay is called: “Equality: Industrial Capitalism’s Trojan Horse—Environmental Racism, Green…
December 4, 2023 Hosted by the Jewish Climate Action Network Program in Massachusetts, I presented with Thea Iberall, Mirele Goldsmith, Rabbi Katy Z. Allen, and Judith Black as the emcee.
Watch a video of the lecture below: How can we practice radical climate justice as we raise our children in a world dominated by petroleum-pharmaceutical hegemonies? Parenting in the 21st century represents perhaps one of the most contradictory positions…
The first of my three presentations with Báyò Akómoláfé’s We Will Dance With Mountains. A Zoom meeting with between 800-1000 attendees. Báyò was absent during that particular session due to severe illness. The chat became a roiling tsunami of…
Ecocriticism presentation with Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square at Bishop’s University, Montreal Eco-criticism offers one way to narrate our world, imagine a different world. Playing with call & response, we will explore our epigenetic potential to not only imagine, but to co-create–conspire others…
Please join me for a virtual conversation related to Rhode Island School of Design’s current exhibit and my own photographic work: The Performative Self-Portrait
August 14-18, 2023 Chicago, IL I will be presenting five different programs. Individual Lecture “What is White? Can a Sephardi, Mizrahi, or Muslim-Arab be a ‘Real’ POC?” Presenting on “The Dichotomy of Identity” panel Aug. 16, 8-9:30am with Dr. Davide…
Association of the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) in collaboration with the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) July 9-12, 2023 Portland, OR Cara’s presentation: “Radical Accountability through Creative-Waste Culture” How can we shift our epidemic of individualism from consumer…
Is there nothing you can do about the environment? Also, see my many contributions to Green Sabbath Project Gatherings:
During the Symposium on Social Anarchism and Collective Responsibility at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, I was interviewed by Emma Moorman from NeuroEpigenEthics for my presentation–“Epigenetic Insurgencies: Eco-Justice Anarchy as Collective Imperative” Organizer: University of Antwerp, NeuroEpigenEthics …
Transmutations, Transgressions Promiscuous Crossings: Transforming Climate Chaos through the Sephardic Jewish Body Organizer: The International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture Video Lecture:
A central theme is how to integrate the personal with the political, the private with the public. As I discuss with the audience embodied energy and supply chains, Fibershed* consciousness (individual, community, corporation, infrastructure, policy paradigm changes as a collective practice of...
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April 4th, 2:00pm PST University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Micaela Amateau Amato’s illustrations from Zazu Dreams projected during first break; Micaela Amateau Amato‘s art projected during 2nd break; my projected photography on display during third break Ladino (the language of my maternal and paternal family)…
March 25, 10-10:15am EST University of Antwerp, Belgium My projected photographs will offer a visual aesthetic dimension of surrealism within social anarchism. See the Programme for Saturday→ See also NeuroEpigenEthics→
March 24th Brown University As a guest lecturer for Heather Bhandari’s ART/WORK class, I will offer an interactive presentation focusing on vulnerability, integrity, conformity, and compliance–not just as individual artists, but co-creating a culture of creativity in the face of digital-age tyrannies. …
March 8th Bishop’s University, Montreal As a guest lecturer for Shoshannah Bryn Square Jones’ Literature and the Environment class, I will offer an interactive presentation focusing on my eco-action model: S.O.U.L. (Shared Opportunity Used Local) and daily eco-ethics from my creative non-fiction book: Zazu Dreams.
The Arab/ Jew dichotomy is one of the most vitriolic and inaccurate divisions that dictate both international policy and quotidian behavior across the globe. Monolithic institutionalized categories, such as Jew, Arab, Muslim, white, perpetuate divisiveness, racism, government-sponsored terrorism, and ecological…
Surrealism as a practice for everyday life…in a visceral-corporeal /public-private/ eco-justice context. Chicago Art Institute
Summary: In Somali Soonoqo means to become / to return. It is believed that you cannot become something that did not exist and you cannot return without becoming. It’s a simultaneous act of unfolding and returning to ourselves. January 13th,…
Petroleum parenting, what I identify as the decisions parents make that overwhelmingly contribute to both environmental destruction and body-phobic institutional practices, reifies the status-quo and our myopic capacity to engage beyond our shame-based, accumulationist individualism. In our petroleum-pharmaceutical-addicted cyber-world, our…
Kaylan Buteyn interviews panel at Elsewhere Studios Artist Residency with Laura Deutch, Cara Judea Alhadeff & Carolina Porras on Artist Mothers, Art as Life, Not a Job.
Summary: During the triple pandemic of climate crisis, racism / ethnic cleansing, and covid-19 we have become increasingly aware of the world that does not work for the majority of the planet. We long for inspiration and grounded strategies which…
Summary: The purpose of this environmental-justice performance is to generate cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, interfaith dialogue and Jewish-themed action. Reclaiming ancient Judaic spiritual-pharmacopeias, agricultural and architectural environmental engineering practices can be one resolution for systemic oppressions in our triple pandemic of racism,…
Summary: Presented for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Nearly Carbon Neutral Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency, UC Santa Barbara, 2020 Climate Justice Now: Transforming the Anthropocene into The Ecozoic Era asks: How can…
Summary: We must practice caution during our transition from our global petroculture, not based on the motivation, but on the underlying false assumptions and strategies that perceived sustainability agendas offer. At this juncture of geopolitical, ecological, social, and corporeal catastrophes,…
Summary: Presented at Peace Education: Security, Stability, Sustainability at Assam Don Bosco University, India, 2022 Watch the Video Lecture
Summary: Through historical Sephardic storytelling, Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff presents contemporary interconnections between MLK Jr. and the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat, “the new year for trees.” Presented as a Power Through Partnership Program. In partnership with The Big…
Summary: “Greenwashing and Environmental Racism in the Renewable Energy Revolution” is a video lecture from my chapter in the book Shifting Climates-Shifting Peoples, Dr. Miguel De La Torre, editor. The video-lecture that is shot outside our repurposed school-bus tiny home…
Summary: Presented at Peace Education: Security, Stability, Sustainability at Assam Don Bosco University, India, 2022 Watch the Video Lecture
Summary: This video was made for Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality international conference: Ecological Spiritualities, April, 2022. It was the Racial Justice Invocation for Ammud Jews of Color Torah Academy’s 3rd Anniversary Gala February, 2022. Watch…
Summary: For Ecological Spiritualities Inaugural International Conference 2022, Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality Published in: The excerpts come from my interviews with National Public Radio: KPFA, Pacifica Radio KGNU KVNF Local Fauna AshevilleFM Podcast interviews:…
Published in: Tikkun, Journal of Radical Empathy, 2022 Summary: In the framework of our current Shmita Year, “Sacred Attunement: Shmita as Cultural Biomimicry” explores the Hebrew concepts of selah (pause, including a practice of decolonizing our relationship to homogenizing…