Sawyer Seminar Series

Restorative and reparative environmental justice is preoccupied with both past and ongoing harms that have been inflicted on communities and the limitations that come with developing and enforcing meaningful environmental regulations under traditional, legalistic approaches to environmentalism and conservation. But newer humanities-influenced approaches to environmental justice consider a future built from individual and collective actions … Read More

The SASN-Audible Environmental and Climate Justice Lecture What Now?!: Research, Learning, & Doing During Climate Catastrophe and Hyper-racial Capitalism brings together community organizers, scholars, and students to examine the existential challenges posed by climate change. This event will feature a keynote by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, Vincent Mann, Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation Turtle Clan, María López … Read More

Join Drs. Wendell H. Marsh and R.A. Judy for an engaging discussion on Textual Life, a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial nation. It makes a case for a new literary and intellectual-historical approach to Islam in Africa.