All Panel Discussions & Open Classes will occur between 11:30 and 3:00. Exact times are currently being determined by the organizing committee. Additional suggestions for open classes, panel topics and volunteer organizers are welcome. To get involved with one of the panels, email the organizer!
You can register for panels and open classes here
Organized Panels
Intersectionality: Student Perspectives on Living and Working Together at Bowdoin
Organized by Roy Partridge ([email protected])
Oceans and Climate Change: Impact on Human and Ocean Communities
Organized by Amy Johnson ([email protected])
Is the US Political System Broken?
Organized by Laura Henry ([email protected])
Globalization: Wealth, Poverty, and Climate Disruption
Organized by David Vail ([email protected])
Who Owns the Earth: Maine’s Diverse Populations & Environments
Organized by Susan Wegner ([email protected])
Food for Thought: Eating for a Healthier Planet and a Healthier You
Organized by Eric Gaze ([email protected])
Stop Killing Us: Power, Violence, and Extinction
Organized by Hadley Horch ([email protected])
Human Health and Climate Change
Organized by Birgit Pols ([email protected]) & Maggie Acosta ([email protected])
Talking Across Differences: Facing challenges and sharing strategies
Organized by Nadia Celis ([email protected]); panelists Belinda Kong, Kate Stern, Chuck Dorn, Ashley Bomboka ’16
Striving for Change: Social Movements & Campus Politics
Organized by Heather Witzel Lakin ([email protected])
A Heritage of Greed: Past and Present Colonial Enterprises
Organized by Nadia Celis ([email protected])
Faith, Justice & Nature
Organized by Madeleine Msall ([email protected])
Open Classes
Mercy Mercy Me: The Environment, the Blues, and Hip Hop – Randolph Stakeman
Imagining Futures: Readings from Science Fiction on Identity and the Environment – Arielle Saiber and Rayne Sampson ’18
Two Sides of the Border: Imagining, Experiencing, and Embodying the “Other” with the Facts of Climate Change – Vladimir Douhovnikoff and Abigail Killeen
What is Fair? Who is Responsible? Global Climate Negotiations and Climate Activism North/South/East/West – Laura Henry
#BlackLivesMatter versus Climate Change? Reading Naomi Klein and John Metta – Mark Foster & Mary Hunter
Social Inequity in the Middle East – Robert Morrison
Bookmaking, Humans, and Nature – Carrie Scanga & Nicole Pietrantoni
Writing After Katrina – Anthony Walton
Slave Resistance and Revolts – Judith Casselberry and Barbara Krauthamer (UMass Amherst)
The (re-)peopling of North America: Slavery’s legacy on the law and the land – Patrick Rael
Climate Dance Event – Forced Migration and Interdependence – Paul Sarvis
Chemical Exposure Risks: Public Safety and Burden of Proof – Dharni Vasudevan
Violence and Environment – Dale Syphers, Divya Gupta, and Sree Padma Holt
Our Fair Cities? The Urban Landscapes of Social and Environmental Inequalities in America and Beyond – Matthew Klingle & Brian Purnell
Earth Care: Public health, disease, and environmental inequalities in the Anthropocene – John Lichter & Matthew Klingle
The Proposed Second Central American Canal in Nicaragua: Environmental and Social Consequences – Nathaniel Wheelwright & Allen Wells
Climate Change and its Impact on Society in Sub-Saharan Africa – Olufemi Vaughan & Mark Battle
Don Quixote of the Arctic: Inuit, Social Justice and Climate Change – Arctic Museum Staff
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