Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Fighting for Environmental Justice in Fenceline Communities
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is a non-profit environmental health and justice organization working with communities that neighbor oil refineries and chemical plants. The Bucket Brigade helps communities hold these industries accountable for pollution by providing assistance with community organizing, education, media outreach, and gathering evidence against industry, including training communities to use an EPA-approved “bucket” to conduct air sampling in order to document toxic air pollution.
Please join us on April 3 & 4 to hear representatives from the Bucket Brigade discuss their environmental justice work.
PUBLIC TALKS:
Wednesday, April 3, 6:00 pm
Student Center Room #111
Thursday, April 4, 3:30 pm
White Hall Classroom Building #231
Ronesha Johnson is a community member from Shreveport, LA and Environmental Justice Corps fellow with the Bucket Brigade.
Kristen Evans, MA joined the Bucket Brigade in 2011, working with Residents for Air Neutralization before she started the Bucket Brigade's Art-to-Action program.
These talks are part of the American Studies Program’s Environmental Justice Speaker Series.
Co-sponsored by American Studies, Appalachian Studies, and the Student Sustainability Council.
Date:
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Location:
Whitehall Classrom Building Room 231
Event Series:
Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Fighting for Environmental Justice in Fenceline Communities
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is a non-profit environmental health and justice organization working with communities that neighbor oil refineries and chemical plants. The Bucket Brigade helps communities hold these industries accountable for pollution by providing assistance with community organizing, education, media outreach, and gathering evidence against industry, including training communities to use an EPA-approved “bucket” to conduct air sampling in order to document toxic air pollution.
Please join us on April 3 & 4 to hear representatives from the Bucket Brigade discuss their environmental justice work.
PUBLIC TALKS:
Wednesday, April 3, 6:00 pm
Student Center Room #111
Thursday, April 4, 3:30 pm
White Hall Classroom Building #231
Ronesha Johnson is a community member from Shreveport, LA and Environmental Justice Corps fellow with the Bucket Brigade.
Kristen Evans, MA joined the Bucket Brigade in 2011, working with Residents for Air Neutralization before she started the Bucket Brigade's Art-to-Action program.
These talks are part of the American Studies Program’s Environmental Justice Speaker Series.
Co-sponsored by American Studies, Appalachian Studies, and the Student Sustainability Council.
Date:
-
Location:
Student Center (Room 111)
Event Series:
Gurney Norman reads & signs "Ancient Creek"
Set in a fictional hill-domain resembling our own Appalachia, Ancient Creekfollows the struggles of native hill folk against colonialist invaders. The hero Jack, familiar from the Jack tale tradition, is the fugitive leader of the people's revolt and the nemesis of the King. Wounded survivors of the revolution find solace and healing on Ancient Creek where old Aunt Haze is the guiding spirit. This edition also includes essays about the story by Jim Wayne Miller, Kevin I. Eyster, Annalucia Accardo, and Dee Davis, founder of the Center for Rural Strategies, who will be joining Gurney at the event.
Location:
882 E High St
Lexington , Kentucky 40502
Date:
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Location:
The Morris Book Shop
Event Series:
Global Sustainability Expert Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food
Internationally renowned scholar and activist Vandana Shiva visited the University of Kentucky to present her lecture on "The Future of Food" and to discuss the many challenges of global sustainability. Shiva has been the author of more than 20 books on sustainable agriculture, development, feminist theory, alternative globalization, and bioengineering.
Mapping the Abstract: Jenny Rice
Most of us associate mapping with cartography, but that's not always the case.
Global Sustainability Expert Vandana Shiva Lectures at UK
Internationally regarded sustainability scholar and activist Vandana Shiva returns to the University of Kentucky Thursday to share her expertise with the campus and community.
"Environmental Health Concerns in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy"
Environmental Justice Speaker Series
The American Studies Program and the Sociology Department Present
Dr. Gregory Button
Anthropology Department
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Date:
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Location:
Student Center (Room 357)
“The TVA Coal Waste Disaster”
Environmental Justice Speaker Series
The American Studies Program and the Sociology Department Present
Dr. Gregory Button
Anthropology Department
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Date:
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Location:
Whitehall Classrom Building Room 231
A Geography of Small Spaces
Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory. She has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group, and is the current editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005; paperback 2006), and Unlearning the City: Infrastructurein a New Optical Field (Minnesota, 2012 forthcoming). Her current work includes a new book project, "Nature's Infrastructure," dealing with the infrastructural transformation of the Gangetic Plains between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Date:
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Location:
Lexmark Room, Main Building