Hamilton College presents “Environmental Justice: Subversive Ideas, Bold Action, and Transformative Community Building,” the 2024 Morris Fellow lecture, on Thursday, April 4, at 4:30 p.m., in the college chapel. The speaker, Professor David N. Pellow, is department chair of environmental studies and director of the global environmental justice project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on environmental and social justice, race/class/gender and environmental conflict, human-animal conflicts, sustainability, and social change movements that confront our socioenvironmental crises and social inequality.
The event is free and open to the public.
Pellow’s presentation will address environmental justice scholarship, activism and politics within academia and grassroots movements in the U.S. and globally. The cases Pellow considers include many that he has personally been involved with and that offer lessons for students, teachers, researchers, administrators and community advocates seeking to engage with environmental and climate justice. Pellow offers analyses and hopeful reflections on struggles within communities of color fighting for liberation in the face of threats from toxic waste facilities, carceral institutions, militarization, and the effects of climate disruption.
The Morris Fellow lecture series, established in 2013 by Hamilton alumnus and trustee Robert S. Morris, aims to bring distinguished scholars with expertise in emerging topics in math or the sciences to enhance academic offerings at the college.
