Hamilton Faculty Speak on Environmental Justice and Sustainability
A group of Hamilton faculty from a variety of disciplines spoke in the newly renovated Kirner-Johnson Auditorium about "Environmental Justice and Sustainability" on Sept. 9. The event, sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project and the Levitt Center, provided few answers to pressing questions of sustainability but helped clarify the challenges that face humanity in preparing for the future.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 4:30 p.m. Glen House
Welsh poet and Environmentalist, Robert Minhinnick
Tuesday, October 14th, 12 noon
K.J. 102
"I Am Not Afraid" :The Story of Rufina Amaya and the El Mozote Massacre of 1981
A Brown Bag with Melissa Young '09
Monday, October 6th, 7:30 p.m. SCCT G027
"A Flood of Opportunity: Polluted Sacred Rivers and Religious Environmentalism in India"
An interdisciplinary panel discussion on the status of the Yamuna and Ganges Rivers with presentations by Professor Kelly Alley (Auburn U., Anthropology), author of On the Banks of the Ganga" and Professor David Haberman (Indiana U, Religious Studies), author of River of Love in the Age of Pollution.
Fall 2008 Environmental Justice Series
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.
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)
Ernest Williams (Biology)
Moderated by Professor Ann Owen
Co-sponsored with the Levitt Center.
A Reception will follow in KJ Commons2007/08 Series "Health Matters"
Monday, April 21st, 7:30 p.m, Science Center, G027
Helen Epstein, Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University.
"The Invisable Cure: Africa and the west and the Fight against AIDS."
Monday, March 3rd, 7:30 p.m. Science Center Auditorium G027
Beyond Hamilton: Global Public Health"
A Panel featuring Hamilton Alumni
Jennifer Giacomini '99
Sarah Taylor '03
Wednesday, February 20th, 7:30 p.m. The Red Pit
"Bringing the Body Back to Testimony: Disability and the problem of Voice"
Alexa Schriempf
Alexa Schriempf, is Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Philosophy. Schriempf is a doctoral student at Penn State University. Her dissertation on "Material Witness: Disability and Testimony" emerges from an interest in feminist philosophy, ethics, epistemology, and disability studies.
Monday, February 4th, 7:30 p.m. Events Barn
Thomas Kensler '70
"Preventing the Global Cancer Tsunami."
Thursday, January 24th, 4:10 p.m. Science Center 3024
Philip Uninsky, J.D. and Ph.D.,
Executive Director, Partnership for Results.
"A Second Mouse's Agenda: A Model for Changing Local Governance and Promoting Positive
Youth Development".
Monday, November 19th at 12 noon G041
Brown Bag Lunch with Professor Ted Eismeier
"Is Diversity Bad for Civic Health? A Discussion about Putnam's Social Capital Benchmark Survey"
Monday, November 26th at 12 noon G041
Brown Bag Lunch with Allison Gaston-Enholm
"Contingency Plans for the Avian Flu in Nigeria and South Africa"
Monday, November 12th, 7:30 p.m. Fillius Events Barn
Marca Bristo
Marca Bristo is an internationally acclaimed leader in the disability rights movement
"Disability Policy in the Post ADA Era"
Monday, November 5th, 7:30 p.m. Fillius Events Barn
Christine Rathbun
"Reconstruction: Or How I Learned To Pay Attention"
Christine Rathbun is a writer and performer in the tradition of the late monologuist Spalding Gray.
Monday, October 29th 7:30 p.m. Science Center G041
Alumni Health Panel
Jeff Long '05
Alison Lin '03
Josie Collier '97
Thursday, Sept 27th, 4:10 p.m. Hamilton College Chapel
Rafael Campo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
"Fact versus Truth: Examining Health Disparities Through Diverse Illness Narratives."
Thursday, September 27th 8:00 p.m. Fillius Events Barn
Poetry Reading
Co-sponsored with the Department of English
Tuesday, Sept 25th, 7:30 p.m. Events Barn
Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
"Living Downstream"
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health.
Saturday, September 8th, 9:30 a.m. Science Center G027
Professor Leslie Paul Thiele
"You Can Never Do Just One Thing: What Ecology Teaches Us About Social Justice"
Leslie Paul Thiele received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989. His research focuses on continental political thought, environmental ethics and politics, and the intersection of political philosophy, psychology and cultural studies.
September 7th and 8th, 2007
"Social Justice" Conference
A student and faculty conference to be held at Hamilton College. The conference will feature two plenary speakers addressing "What is Social Justice" and opening performance of the play "Let Me Down Easy" by Anna Deavere Smith. Dr. Leslie Paul Thiele, Department of Political Science, University of Florida will open the conference on Saturday, September 8th at 9:30 a.m.
Friday, Sept. 7th, 7:30 p.m. Wellin Hall
Anna Deavere Smith
"Let Me Down Easy"
Anna Deavere Smith will perform selections from her new play "Let Me Down Easy" about the resilience and fragility of the human body. Hailed by Newsweek as "the most exciting individual in American theater," playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith uses her singular brand of theater to explore issues of race, community and character in America. Smith is best known as the author of Fires in the Mirror, which dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot, and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, which dealt with the 1992 Los Angeles riots. She also played National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on the TV series The West Wing.
Tickets $15:00 for the public/$10:00 for Hamilton Community and Seniors/$5:00 for students
Spring 2007
Monday, April 9th, 2007, 4:10 p.m. K.J. Auditorium
Diversity and Social Justice Project Panel
Working for Social Justice in jobs that pay a living wage"
Thomas Acampora '05
A Freshman Seminar and U.S. History Instructor at Baltimore Talent Development High School, Thomas successfully motivates and challenges students to learn and think critically about the world.
Rebecca Libed '99
Rebecca is the Development Manager at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) headquartered in New York City.
Ali Cherry '03
Ali is a Senior Client Manager at Grassroots Enterprise, a public affairs firm. She also works with a number of nonprofit organizations, including Legal Momentum, Progressive Majority, National Breast Cancer Coalition and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.
2006 Series "Activism in Academia"
Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m. Red pit
Stereotype Threat: Power Influences on Achievement, Motivation and Social Well-Being.
Dr. Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University
Tuesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m. Red Pit
New Release
"Activism and Academe and the politicization of the classroom."
Dr. Mark Lance, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
News Release...
February 22, 4:10 p.m. Science Center 3024
"Scaling the Ivory Tower"
Preliminary Data on the Instrumental Relationships of Doctoral Students of Color".
Nikisha Williams '01, Pre-Doctoral Fellow of Psychology, Denison College.
News Release...
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Wednesday, February 7, 7:30 p.m. Hamilton College Chapel
"In the wake of the storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina"
Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark University.
News Release...
Monday, January 29, 4:10 p.m. Red Pit
"On Covering Katrina."
Scott Gold, Staff Writer, L.A. Times
Fall Events 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 4:10 p.m. K.J. Auditorium
"Activism In Academia: Local Perspectives"
Vivyan Adair, Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies;
Doug Ambrose, Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of History;
Tiffany Patterson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies;
Penny Yee, Associate Professor of Psychology;
Monday, September 11, 4:10 p.m. Science Center Auditorium
"The Role of Doctors in the Future of Normal"
Dr. Alice Domurat Dreger, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
News Release...
Tuesday, September 12, 7:30 p.m. Science Center Auditorium
"Something is actually happening: should academics do something about it?"
Dr. Alice Domurat Dreger, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
Wednesday, November 8, 7:30 p.m. K.J. Auditorium
"Unequal Outcomes: How families and schools structure social and economic inequalities"
Dr. Lois Weis, Professor and Associate Dean in the Graduate School of Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
News Release...
Tuesday, February 20, 7:30 p.m. Hamilton College Chapel
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