Monday, September 12, 2022
2:00-5:00pm PST
Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240
In-person event
Reception at the University Club to follow

Event flyer

This event marks the launch of the 2022-23 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge.

Please RSVP by Friday, September 9, 2022.

Welcome Remarks:
Amber Miller, Dean of USC Dornsife

Introduction:
Juan De Lara, Director of the Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicities, USC Dornsife

Keynote Speaker:
Marta Segura, Director of Climate Emergency Mobilization Office for the City of Los Angeles

Discussant:
Manuel Pastor, Distinguished Professor, Sociology/American Studies & Ethnicity, Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change, Director, Equity Research Institute, USC Dornsife

Research Forum:
Andrea Ballestero, Director of The Ethnography Studio, Associate Professor of Anthropology, USC Dornsife
William Deverell, Director of the USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West, Professor of History, USC Dornsife
Jill Johnston, Director of Community Engagement in the Division of Environmental Health, Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Science, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Joe Árvai, Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Dana and David Dornsife Chair and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Biological Sciences, USC Dornsife
John Wilson, Director of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, Professor of Spatial Sciences and Sociology, USC Dornsife
Moderator:
Andrew Lakoff, Director of the Center on Science, Technology, and the Public Life, Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife

This event is co-sponsored by USC Dornsife's Center on Science, Technology, and the Public Life and Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies with support from from the Mellon Foundation's Sawyer Seminar Program.