Bringing together the scholarship and activism of Fairfield University graduate students and local community members, as well as featuring a keynote panel of distinguished scholars, this year’s conference considers how the mutually constitutive relationship between human beings and the natural world has been shaped by “America” – as evolving idea, culture, place, and/or political system. Among other speakers, Lights Out CT Co-Chair Meredith Barges will be part of the local activist panel.

1:00-3:30pm - Student Panels
3:00-4:15pm - Local Activists
4:30-6:00pm - Keynote Panel - Eco-ethics and Planetary Justice: Crossings, Contact, and Conflict
Jonathan Howard, PhD: Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University
Maria Montoya, PhD: Global Network Associate Professor of History at NYU
Brian Donahue, PhD: Emeritus, Professor of Environmental Studies, Brandeis University; American Environmental Historian

6:00-7:00pm - Reception featuring the Brian Torff Blues Band

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute, Departments of English, Politics, History, Sociology and Anthropology and the Environmental Studies Program

Free & Open to the Public

Though not required, please register for this event.

For further information, please contact Dr. Peter Bayers, pbayers@fairfield.edu.