Geography Speakers Series Presents:
Speaker: Dr. Holly Moulton (bio here)
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, College of the Holy Cross
Talk Title: Growing chamomile from melting ice: women’s home gardens and climate change adaptation in Peru
Abstract: In the Peruvian Andes, huertas (home gardens) are sites of everyday adaptation that are most often managed by women and are critical for communities living with the socioenvironmental effects of climate change, including glacier melt. Huertas offer counternarratives of adaptation that resist dominant discourses of loss and center people who are sidelined in adaptation projects. Through an ethnographic examination of women’s everyday lives in the Peruvian Callejón de Huaylas, this talk shows distinct spaces where feminist adaptations are currently unnoticed and unsupported in the Andes, but where globally applicable lessons for feminist and everyday adaptations consistently emerge.
Date: Nov 14, 2025
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Venue: Senate Chamber, 2nd Floor (RM 2145), Ohio Union
