The Quest for Global Environmental Equity in an Increasingly Inequitable World

The 2013 Elizabeth Babbott Conant & Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Conference 

Thursday April 18
A Special Pre-Conference Event

4:30 P.M. Jean Thomas Lambert Environmental Lecture
Ernst Common Room, Blaustein Humanities Center

From Our Homelands to the Tar Sands
Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Climate and Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace & Cree Environmental Justice Activist

Free and open to the public

Friday April 19
Evans Hall, Cummings Arts Center

11:45 A.M. Registration

12:30 P.M. Welcome & Introductions

Opening Keynote Suzi Oppenheimer '56 Endowed Lecture
Killing in Ignorance: How We Personally Cause Environmental Injustice and Why We Must Take Action
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O’Neill Family Endowed Professor, Dept. of Philosophy & Dept. of Biological Sciences & Director, Center for Environmental Justice and Children’s Health, University of Notre Dame

1:30 P.M. Session I: Globalization and Environmental Inequity

Globalization and Inequality: An Overview
Robert Darst, Associate Professor of Political Science & Director of Sustainability Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Marjorie Dilley and International Relations Lecture
The Right to Waste: Informal Sector Recyclers and Struggles for Social Justice in Urban India
Vinay Gidwani, Professor of Geography & Global Studies, University of Minnesota

3:00 P.M. Break with Light Refreshments

3:30 P.M. Panel I: Globalization’s Unequal Environmental & Social Impacts in India
Professors, Connecticut College: Geoffrey Atherton, Sunil Bhatia, Jane Dawson, Julia Kushigian, Julie Rivkin and Mab Segrest

5:15 P.M. Adjourn

7:30 P.M. Evening Keynote, Jean Thomas Lambert Environmental Lecture

The High Tech Trashing of the Global South
Jim Puckett, Executive Director of the Basel Action Network & producer of the BAN video, “Exporting Harm”

Free and open to the public

Saturday April 20
Evans Hall, Cummings Arts Center

8:00 A.M. Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00 A.M. Session II: Resource Extraction & the Export of Environmental Risk

Local Struggles for Global Equity: Environmental Justice at the U.S. - Mexico Border
David Carruthers, Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University

Confronting Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Resource Extraction in Latin America
Katya Salazar, Lawyer & Director of Due Process Law Foundation, Washington, D.C.

10:30 A.M. Break with light refreshments

11:00 A.M. Panel II: Environmental Justice; Indigenous Peoples and Urban Marginals in Peru
Professors, Connecticut College: Maria Cruz-Saco, Jenny Fredricks, Leo Garofalo, Karen Gonzalez Rice, Yibing Huang and Joseph Schroeder

12:30    P.M. Buffet Lunch
Hood Dining Room, Blaustein Humanities Center

1:30 P.M. Session III: Balancing the Needs of People and Biodiversity Conservation

Beaver Brook Fund Lecture
From National Parks to Sacred Forests: Community Involvement in Conservation
Alison Ormsby, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Eckerd College

The Inextricable Link - Community Sustainability, Equability, and Conservation in Africa
Adam Whelchel, Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut Chapter

Panel III: The Challenge of Conserving South Africa’s Unique Biodiversity AND Ensuring Environmental Justice to Local Populations
Professors, Connecticut College: Robert Askins, Jane Dawson, Chad Jones, Douglas Thompson, Derek Turner and Marc Zimmer

Closing Remarks

4:30 P.M. Adjourn