Upcoming Events
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Nov
21
For the People and the Land: Direct Action Environmental Justice 12:30pm
For the People and the Land: Direct Action Environmental Justice
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Susan V. Herbst Hall (Formerly Oak Hall)
Joseph Brown (UMass-Boston). Social movements mobilize to fight climate change, water pollution, and biodiversity loss with a variety of direct action tactics. What is the best way to understand these campaigns? This book argues that the “environmental” framework fails to capture the importance of race and Indigenous sovereignty in intersectional “environmental justice” movements. The importance of intersectionality emerges in months of participant observation fieldwork inside Atlanta’s Stop Cop City movement and the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Dozens of interviews illuminate the political and social pathways to direct action, as well as the controversies that arise over strategy and tactics. Given its “insider” research approach, the book sheds light on the subjective experience of direct action, including the highs and lows, triumphs and traumas, hopes and fears of those engaged in frontline environmental justice struggle.
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Nov
21
Demilitarizing the Environment: Fire and Sovereignty in Karuk Country 12:30pm
Demilitarizing the Environment: Fire and Sovereignty in Karuk Country
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Art Building
Featuring: Bruno Seraphin, Professor of Anthropology and Social and Critical Inquiry with Commentary by Ananda Griffin, PhD Student, Philosophy. Seraphin’s book in progress examines the politics of wildfire and prescribed burning in Karuk aboriginal territory in the unsettled colonial present.
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Dec
2
In Conversation: The Role of the States in Preserving Democracy 5:00pm
In Conversation: The Role of the States in Preserving Democracy
Monday, December 2nd, 2024
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
William F. Starr Hall
A reception will precede the discussion. Light refreshments will be served.
If you require a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Law School at 860-570-5079 or via email at law.studentservices@uconn.edu at least two weeks in advance.RSVP here!
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Dec
4
Wednesday Workshops: Hana Maruyama “The Land Is Fenced: The Role of Japanese American Incarcerated Labor in the Formation of Settler Property on Indigenous Lands” 1:15pm
Wednesday Workshops: Hana Maruyama “The Land Is Fenced: The Role of Japanese American Incarcerated Labor in the Formation of Settler Property on Indigenous Lands”
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
01:15 PM - 02:15 PM
Walter Childs Wood Hall
The History Department hosts Wednesday Workshops several times throughout the semester to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker presents their research-in-progress and then engages in a Q&A with the audience.
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Dec
5
Ph.D. Defense of Dissertation-M. Aynal Haque 12:00pm
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We hope you will join us Thursday, 11/21 for an event on Direct Action Environmental Justice! The event will take place at 12:30PM, in SHH 408 and via WebEx.
About the Event:
Joseph Brown (UMass-Boston). Social movements mobilize to fight climate change, water pollution, and ...biodiversity loss with a variety of direct action tactics. What is the best way to understand these campaigns? This book argues that the "environmental" framework fails to capture the importance of race and Indigenous sovereignty in intersectional "environmental justice" movements. The importance of intersectionality emerges in months of participant observation fieldwork inside Atlanta's Stop Cop City movement and the Wet'suwet'en Nation's resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Dozens of interviews illuminate the political and social pathways to direct action, as well as the controversies that arise over strategy and tactics. Given its "insider" research approach, the book sheds light on the subjective experience of direct action, including the highs and lows, triumphs and traumas, hopes and fears of those engaged in frontline environmental justice struggle.
Join UConn Political Science faculty for a debrief on the 2024 Election Results to discuss implications for policy and politics in the next administration. After a brief roundtable discussion, students and members of the broader University community are invited to ask questions and participate in ...discussion.
Happy Election Day! Here is UConn POLS at the POLLS! If you haven't voted yet... you have until 8pm today! Students please see our story for voting resources.