Diversity and Social Justice Project

Mission

 The Project fosters a diverse community by promoting rigorous, interdisciplinary intellectual activity necessary for social justice movements and characteristic of a liberal arts education.

Goals

• Prepare our students to live and work as engaged citizens in an increasingly diverse world.

• Foster student and faculty scholarship related to our mission.

• Develop and support curricula and pedagogies that challenge students to think critically about social justice and human diversity and to make connections between this classroom learning and the society in which we live.

• Initiate and strengthen connections between the Hamilton community and the surrounding area around the mission of the Project.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 4:10-5:30 p.m. K.J. Aud

Opening panel discussion on Environmental Justice and Sustainability with faculty:

Erol Balkan (Economics), Joyce Barry (Women's Studies), Peter Cannavo (Government) and Ernest Williams (Biology)  Moderated by Professor Ann Owen. 
Co-sponsored with the Levitt Center.  

Saturday, September 27th, 2008: 9:30 a.m. K.J. Aud

2008 Student and Faculty Conference. 

Keynote speaker is K. Animashaum Ducre, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University. 

Contact: Professor Jinnie Garrett (jgarrett@hamilton.edu)

Monday, October 6th, 7:30 p.m. SCCT G027
"A Flood of Opportunity: Polluted Sacred Rivers and Religious Environmentalism in India"

Tuesday November 4th, 2008: 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Chapel

Majora Carter, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx.

Co-sponsored with The Levitt Center and the Kirkland Endowment
Contact: Naomi Guttman or Janet Turvey (nguttman@hamilton.edu) or (jturvey@hamilton.edu)

Tuesday, November 11th, 4:30 p.m. Glen House

Welsh poet and Environmentalist, Robert Minhinnick