Schedule

All times in EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

 

Thursday, May 6, 2021

 

2:00-2:10pm | Welcome/Introductory Remarks

 

2:10-3:40pm | Panel 1: Intimate Exposures

• C.N.E. Corbin | Assistant Professor, Portland State University
  
  • In Red, Black, and Green: The Political Ecological Eras of Oakland, California from 1937-2020

• Nicholas Shapiro | Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  
  • Abolitionist Environmentalism? Querying the Power of Itemizing the Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration

• Jessica Worl | Assistant Professor, Davidson

• • Gender, Development, and Domestic Geology

• Moderated by Jamie Gagliano | PhD student (Geography)

 

3:40-3:50: Break

 

3:50pm-5:20pm: Toxic Expertise

• Kessie Alexandre | Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
  
  • Slow Transparency and the Localization of Lead in the Newark Water Crisis

• Shannon Cram | Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Bothell
  
  • Rational Mutants: On the Meaning and Making of Reasonable Harm

• Adam Romero | Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Bothell

• • Agricultural Toxicology and the Development of Economically Efficient Mass Death

• Moderated by Tyler Young | PhD student (Geography)

5:20-5:30 Break

 

5:30-7:00pm – Keynote 1: Michelle Murphy | Professor of History, University of Toronto

Introduced by Maravilla Clemens | MA student (Geography)

“Land/Body Relations in the Aftermath of Colonial Environmental Violence on the Great Lakes”

 

Friday, May 7, 2021

 

1:00-2:30pm: Community Calculations

• Kai Bosworth | Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
  
  • If You Smell Something, Say Something!: Sensing Underground Gas Leaks in Environmental Justice Organizing 

• Lindsey Dillon | Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
  
  • Remediation, Repair, and Reparations in San Francisco

• Sara Wylie | Associate Professor, Northeastern University
  
  • Intimate Toxicities, Bounded Governance and Relational Learning

•  Moderated by Sahithya Venkatesan | PhD student (Geography)

 

2:30-2:40: Break

 

2:40-4:10pm: Embodied Exposures

• Asher Ghertner | Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  
  • Toward a Geography of Breath in Postcolonial Delhi
    

• Gabriela Valdivia | Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  
  • Jugarse la Vida

• Pavithra Vasudevan | Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
  
  • The Pathology of Asphyxial Death

•  Moderated by Liana Katz | PhD student (Geography)

 

4:10-4:20: Break

 

4:20-5:50: Contaminated Solidarities

• Rosalind Fredericks | Associate Professor, New York University
  
  • Uncanny Exposures: Embodied Infrastructures and Toxic Solidarities at Dakar’s Dump

• Andrea Marston | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  
  • Anatomy of Autonomy: Corporeal Resources and Toxic Self-Governance

• Sebastián Ureta | Associate Professor, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago
  
  • Residual Ecologies: Finding Life Within Extraction

• Moderated by Alex Liebman | PhD student (Geography)

 

5:50-6:00: Break

 

6:00-7:25 – Keynote 2:  Elizabeth Povinelli | Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Introduced by Maravilla Clemens | MA student (Geography)

“Toxic Late Liberalism and the Four Axioms of Existence”

 

 

7:25-7:30: Concluding Remarks