Environmental Crises: History, Economics and Politics Seminar
Friday, April 4, 2014, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Campus:
Dayton
E163 Student Union
Audience:
Future Students
Current Students
Faculty
Staff
Alumni
The public
Environmental Crises: History, Economics, and Politics:
This symposium will bring together scholars from a range of fields in an effort to explore issues of environmental justice beyond the confines of disciplinary boundaries. 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 environmental activism
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