Wednesday, April 23

Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice

Join us for a two-day series of panels to explore how reparative and restorative approaches can help to re-imagine environmental justice.

By Sawyer Seminar at Rutgers Newark

Date and time

Wednesday, April 23 · 9am - 6pm EDT

Location

Express Newark

54 Halsey Street Room 213 Newark, NJ 07102

Agenda

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Breakfast

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Welcome Remarks and Opening by Mayte Green-Mercado

10:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Ecocide in the Middle East

This panel will center on the ongoing Ecocide in the Middle East and will include discussions with anthropologist Kali Rubaii and scholar of Human Rights Shourideh Molavi.

11:20 AM - 11:30 AM

Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 AM - 12:50 PM

A Conversation with Local and International Environmental Activists & Writers

A conversation with novelist and environmental activists.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Green Amendments: Constitutional Frameworks for Environmental Justice

This panel explores environmental justice and legal frameworks with Shawn LaTourette, New Jersey's Commissioner of Environmental Protection; Maya van Rossum, founder of the Green Amendment for the G...

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

Coffee/Tea Break

3:30 AM - 5:30 AM

Sowing, and Documenting, Repair: How One Indigenous Community Pursued Justice

Screening of films Mann V. Ford and The Meaning of the Seed, and a conversation with directors Anita Bakshi and Micah Fink, and Chief Wayne Mann. This panel will be moderated by Jack Tchen.

About this event

Event lasts 9 hours

Join us for a one-day series of panels, discussions, and film screenings to explore how reparative and restorative approaches can be applied to re-imagine environmental justice. Lunch will be provided and registration is required. This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available please register here.

Image credit: Emebet A. Jigssa. (2023). Earth Satellite Image Imitation Abstract. https://icpac.medium.com/how-can-art-amplify-efforts-to-address-climate-change-7d775b261f08

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Sawyer Seminar at Rutgers Newark