Details — Julie Sze to Speak on Environmental Justice — November 27
| Date: 11/27 | Time: 7 pm |
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Professor Julie Sze, founding chair of American Studies at the University of California at Davis, will give a talk titled “Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger,” on Tuesday, November 27, at 7 p.m. in the Tillotson Room, Tippie Alumni Center.
She was the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for John Muir Institute of the Environment. Sze researches environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and urban/community health and activism. Her research was funded by the Ford Foundation, the American Studies Association and the UC Humanities Research Institute. Professor Sze’s book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (MIT, 2007) received the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in her field, and her second book, from 2015, Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (2015), was published by the University of California Press. This event is free and open to the public.