This academic year, Professors Jessica Frazier and Amelia Moore will be hosting five scholars specializing in environmental justice scholarship on the Kingston campus. Speakers in the series make connections between race, poverty, gender, colonization, and detrimental environmental policies in local, regional, national, and international contexts. All talks will be held from 4-5pm. Please see details below:

Wednesday, Oct 19, 2016 Peter Little, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rhode Island College, “On Toxic Fires, Justice, and Electronic Waste Politics in Ghana,” Beaupre 105

Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016 Elizabeth Hoover, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University, “Settler Colonialism and Environmental Reproductive Justice in a Mohawk Community,” Galanti Lounge

Monday, Feb 6, 2017 Vanessa Agard-Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, “After the End of the World: Black Lives, Matter and the Anthropocene,” Galanti Lounge

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 Mei Mei Evans, Professor of English, Alaska Pacific University, “This is What Happens When,” Galanti Lounge

Monday, April 3, 2017 Keisha-Khan Perry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University, and Visiting Fellow, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University, “Black Women’s Life and Death Struggle in the Renewed City,” Galanti Lounge