Over the Line: A Conversation About Race, Place, and the Environment

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October27
Friday, 27 October, 2017 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Paul O’Regan Hall; Halifax Central Library; 5440 Spring Garden Road; Halifax
Cost: 
Free
Organized By: The ENRICH Project & The Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University

This two-part event will bring together American, Nova Scotian and Canadian experts to discuss the social, political, and health effects of environmental racism, gentrification, policing, renewable energy, climate change, housing, neighbourhood infrastructure, transportation, and other "place-based" concerns in African Nova Scotian and Indigenous communities.

 

Speakers will include affected African Nova Scotian and Indigenous communities, professors, researchers, NGOs, policymakers, and students from the US, Nova Scotia, and other parts of Canada.

 

Day 1:

 

Thursday, October 26

7 pm - 8:30 pm

Dalhousie's McCain Building

Public lecture by:

  • Dr. Robert Bullard; Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning & Environmental Policy
  • Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University, Houston

 

 

Day 2:

 

Friday, October 27

9 am - 5 pm

Halifax Central Library

Keynote by Dr. George Lipsitz, Professor, Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Also, three panels with speakers from the US, Nova Scotia, and Canada

Contact Information:

Ingrid Waldron
(902) 494-4267
iwaldron@dal.ca

Additional Information:

This is a free two-part event.

 

Free lunch and refreshments will be provided on Day 2: Friday, October 27.

 

To register and for more information, see the Facebook Event Page:

https://tinyurl.com/y9qedgop

 

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