Register for this talk (April 22 at 5:30 pm Pacific) This talk will explore how conceptualizing love as work can provide a fresh perspective on scholarly concerns about the ethics of a politics rooted in love...
Category - Speaker series
Schatz Center
SFSS webinar 4/15 — The hamburger is eating the forest: changing the trajectory of one of Brazil’s largest exports
Register for this talk (April 15 at 4 pm Pacific) — please note revised time Cattle raising is the chief driver of deforestation in many parts of the world, demanding huge amounts of land for both pasture and...
SFSS webinar 4/8 — Quantifying systemic racial and ethnic disparities in air pollution in California
Register for this talk (April 8 at 4 pm Pacific) Despite decades of effort to improve air quality in California, large and systemic racial and ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure still persist. In...
SFSS webinar 4/1 — E kūkulu nā kiaʻi: guarding against green colonialism in Hawaiʻi
Register for this talk (April 1, 5:30 pm Pacific) This talk will explore two recent, interconnected land struggles in Hawaiʻi — one over the proposed Thirty-Meter Telescope on Maunakea, and the other over a renewable...
SFSS webinar 3/25 — The Ecological Superblock / Neo Nature: the city in the Anthropocene
Please note that the time has changed to 7:30 pm (Pacific) on March 25Register for this talk The rapid undergoing and coming climatic and ecological change, coupled with rapid acceleration in population growth, raise...
SFSS webinar 3/18 — Cántaro Azul: An organization’s journey to contribute to the human right to water and sanitation in rural Mexico
Register for this talk (March 18, 5:30 pm Pacific) Back in 2005, a group of students at the University of California, Berkeley, designed the first ultraviolet water disinfection system for rural households. Part of...
SFSS webinar 3/11 — Environmental justice in Indian Country and moving toward a transformational land ethic
Register for this talk (March 11, 5:30 pm Pacific) In her acclaimed book As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock, author Dina Gilio-Whitaker...
Sustainable Futures speaker series opens March 11
Join us this spring as eight visiting speakers tackle a breadth of questions related to energy, society, and the environment! March 11 at 5:30 pm — Dina Gilio-WhitakerEnvironmental justice in Indian Country and moving...
SFSS webinar 11/12 – Holy waters: colonial control of land, space, and resources in Palestine
REGISTER for this webinar (5:30 pm Pacific) Leena Dallasheh is an associate professor of history at Humboldt State University. She received her PhD in the joint History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program at...
SFSS webinar 10/29 — Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities
Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: from reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis REGISTER for this talk This talk will offer a pragmatic praxis for aligning community solar campaigns with...
SFSS webinar 10/22 — Redwood Coast telecom resilience
Redwood Coast telecom resilience: how broadband, internet, cellular, and emergency communications are changing, and becoming more resilient and climate-smart ** Please note that this talk will be held at 4 pm...
SFSS webinar 10/8 — When Latinx studies and environmental studies meet
REGISTER for this talk This event will feature a panel discussion with the editors of Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial — Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis...
