Environmental Crises: History, Economics, and Politics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on April 4th

All too often academics’ analyses of environmental issues are confined to the narrow bounds of individual disciplines.  In an effort to address this challenge, the symposium will bring together scholars from a range of fields in an effort to explore issues of environmental justice at the intersections of urban and rural concerns, and to discuss their scholarship with a diverse audience.  Symposium speakers and their topics include:

• Joyce Barry, Hamilton College (Women’s Studies Department), “Gender and Climate Change: Lessons from the Movement to End Mountaintop Removal”
• Harold Perkins, Ohio University (Geography Department), “Consent to Neoliberal Hegemony through Coercive Urban Environmental Governance”
• Helen Scharber, Hampshire College (Economics Department), “Are We Poisoning the Most Vulnerable?  Race and Pollution Exposure among Infants in the U. S.”
• Rachel Belz, Ohio Citizen Action, on local environmental activism

Presentations and a roundtable-audience discussion will take place 1:30-5:30pm, in the Student Union Discovery Room (163).  The event is open to the public, refreshments will be provided, and no registration fee is charged.  The sponsors especially encourage participation by regional faculty, students, and the broader public.

Sponsors: Raj Soin College of Business; Office of Sustainability, Office of the President; College of Liberal Arts; College of Science and Mathematics; Honors Program; History Department.

For more information please contact Drew Swanson, Assistant Professor of History (drew.swanson@wright.edu)